Route - Waun Fach from Pengenfordd
Weather - Overcast with rain showers
Learning Points/Skills Practices - Planning, flora and fora identification, group leadership. Picked up a walker that had been left behind by her group and led her around the mountains back to the car park
Group - 5
Camp style - N/A
The individual takes part in the planning and leadership - yes
Navigation skills are required away from marked paths - Yes, on a number of locations
Experience must be in terrain and weather comparable to that found in UK and Irish hills - Yes Brecon Beacons
Knowledge is increased and skills practised - see above
Attention is paid to safety - Constantly looking out for hazards and advising as appropriate.
The journey is five hours or more - Yes, 5:15 hours in total
Adverse conditions may be encountered - Heavy rain showers
Ascent of a substantial peak would normally be included in the day - Waun Fach & Rhos Dirion
Area :
Black Mountains
The Black Mountains (Welsh: Y Mynyddoedd Duon) are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the national border into Herefordshire, England. They are the easternmost of the four ranges of hills that comprise the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently confused with the westernmost, which is known as the Black Mountain. To confuse matters further, there is a peak in the Black Mountains called Black Mountain.
