Route - Beacon Way to Llyn Fan Fawr and back
Weather - Cold moderate wind rain and low cloud
Learning Points/Skills Practices - Teaching Gold DoE micro navigation skills, through selecting points to navigate to including relocation exercises, walking on a bearing, hand rails, catch features and tick off features. Supported by person from the centre. One girl fell and twisted her ankle after about 1km, after assessment was able to hobble back to the minibus supported by the centre person.
Group - 9 then 7
Camp style - N/A
The individual takes part in the planning and leadership - yes
Navigation skills are required away from marked paths - Stuck to Beacons way but took alterantive route back
Experience must be in terrain and weather comparable to that found in UK and Irish hills - Yes Brecon
Knowledge is increased and skills practised - see above
Attention is paid to safety - Constantly looking out for hazards and advising as appropriate, provided skills for crossing streams. Provided gloves to person within the group who didn`t have any. Also at Llyn Fan Fawr decided to backtrack with variation back to the bus rather than navigating down and trying to cross the River Towe as water levels were high, weather was bad and the party were cold and wet.
The journey is five hours or more - Yes, 5:08 hours in total
Adverse conditions may be encountered - Yes, moderate winds, rain & poor visibility.
Ascent of a substantial peak would normally be included in the day - No.
Area :
Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park
Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons) is a mountain range in South Wales. In a narrow sense, the name refers to the range of Old Red Sandstone peaks popular with walkers which lie to the south of Brecon. Sometimes referred to as "the central Beacons" they include South Wales' highest mountain, Pen y Fan. The range forms the central section of the Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog), a designation which also encompasses ranges both to the east and the west of "the central Beacons". This much wider area is also commonly referred to as "the Brecon Beacons".
