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<\/a>Sunday promised to be a better day weather wise.\u00a0 The\u00a0forecast<\/a>\u00a0was for a clear day but very windy.\u00a0 We planned to start this time from the layby at Tawe Bridge which was a bit closer than the last time.<\/p>\n The route onto the access land via Ty Henry needs to be carefully navigated as the land owner at Ty Henry is known to object if you don\u2019t follow the proper permitted path.\u00a0 See the tracklog below for the correct route.<\/p>\n Once past Ty Henry pass to the right of the cattle pens and then the path up onto Fan Hir is very clear if rather steep.<\/p>\n At the top of the initial ascent pass by the small mound of Allt Fach and follow the fairly obvious path North West.\u00a0 This path can get very boggy in the summer but today it was frozen solid, more pleasant to walk on but rather slippy in places.<\/p>\n On a clear day the views off to the North East are fabulous but with the wind in our faces it was a long hard trek up to the top.\u00a0 You will be able to see Pen y Fan and Corn Du in the distance and Fan Nedd in the mid ground.<\/p>\n The final ascent up onto the top of Fan Brycheiniog is a short steep section of path that was heavily iced over.\u00a0 In this weather it is easier to avoid the path and climb the steep grassy bank alongside.<\/p>\n At the summit we were lucky to get the small summit shelter to ourselves so we set up the station there with the aerial poking out over the top, much to the amusement of passers by who thought we were watching TV in there. I quickly made fifteen contacts to activate the summit.<\/p>\n The return trip was uneventful although we did decide to bypass the main heights of Fan Hir to try and avoid the wind.\u00a0 This turned out to be a mistake as with no clear path the ground was very hard going over boulder fields and long grass.\u00a0 With hindsight we would have been better off sticking to the path on the top of the ridge.\u00a0 We were certainly glad to reach the car just before dusk.<\/p>\n Date \u2013 7th January 2018<\/p>\n Postcode \u2013 SA9 1GP<\/p>\n Parking \u2013 SN 845 164<\/p>\n Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74 + 50W PA on 2m<\/p>\n Antenna \u2013 2 ele dipole<\/p>\n Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n Contacts \u2013 15<\/p>\n SOTA points \u2013 8 (+3)<\/p>\n Group \u2013 Myself & Peter<\/p>\n GW\/SW-003 \u2013 Via Fan Hir Sunny start at Tawe Bridge Sunday promised to be a better day weather wise.\u00a0 The\u00a0forecast\u00a0was for a clear day but very windy.\u00a0 We planned to start this time from the layby at Tawe Bridge which was a bit closer than the last time. The route onto the access land … Continue reading Fan Brycheiniog 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-south-wales","category-summits-on-the-air","category-welsh-summits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/1332"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_5a535d6a4cd64-205x300-1.png\")
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<\/a>With the wind blowing strongly in from the North West we were treated to the sight of the snow blowing up the face of Fan Hir into the sunlight creating a rainbow over the edge.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/img_5a53852958e49.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nGW\/SW-003 Log<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nJourney Details<\/h3>\n
Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n
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