{"id":359,"date":"2019-01-20T20:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T20:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2021-07-14T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:58:38","slug":"cefn-yr-ystrad-waun-rydd-tor-y-foel-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/welsh-summits\/cefn-yr-ystrad-waun-rydd-tor-y-foel-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Cefn yr Ystrad, Waun Rydd & Tor-y-Foel 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

GW\/SW-008, Cefn yr Ystrad \u2013 619m, 4 Points<\/h3>\n

We arrived at Pontsticill on the Sunday for the final three bonused summits in the SW region,\u00a0Cefn yr Ystrad.\u00a0 Don\u2019t underestimate this one.\u00a0 It looks easy enough on paper but there is no good track to the summit.\u00a0 A lot of the time you are off track micro navigating to find the next waypoint, especially if the visibility is poor.<\/p>\n

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After a short steep section at the start it\u2019s onto the access land and out with the map and compass.\u00a0 Make whatever best use you can of the various tracks but none of them go where you want them to.\u00a0 Fortunately there is a trig point to mark the summit so you will know when (if?) you get there but the activation zone is pretty big if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Arriving at the top, we set up on the trig point.\u00a0 It was a bit of a struggle but we did eventually manage to make four contacts to qualify it before setting off on the long walk back to the car.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-008, Log<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-008, Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 20th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 CF48 2UP<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 060 114<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 MFJ 1714 LongRanger<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 4<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 4(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-008, Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-008,\u00a0Altitude Profile<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-004, Waun Rydd \u2013 769m, 6 Points<\/h3>\n

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It\u2019s a short drive North to the car park for Waun Rydd.<\/p>\n

Leaving the car it\u2019s straight into a steep ascent to gain the ridge of Craig y Fan Ddu.\u00a0 Once on the top though it\u2019s a very pleasant walk North for a few Km to reach the path down to the memorial site.\u00a0 There is no path up to the summit so the last section will require a bit of navigational skill to find the actual summit.\u00a0 There is a small rock cairn marking the spot about 50m North of the SOTA maps mark.\u00a0 We set up the station on the summit and despite the greater altitude we again struggled to get the contacts but did eventually manage the four required.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-004, Log<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-004, Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 20th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 CF48 2UT<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 056 176<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 MFJ 1714 LongRanger<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 4<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 6(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself + Richard<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-004, Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-004,\u00a0Altitude Profile<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-013, Tor y Foel \u2013 551m, 2 Points<\/h3>\n

The last of the Brecons winter bonus summits for this year,\u00a0Tor y Foel.\u00a0 This is a quick dash up the hill from the car, short but sweet.\u00a0 After the two long walks this day of 008 and 004 this would be a fitting finale.<\/p>\n

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Richard decided to sit this one out so I was off up the hill on my own.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take long to reach the top and set up the station.\u00a0 There is a good clear path straight to the top. Having expected this one to be difficult as it was the lowest of the day, it turned out to be the best one yet with seven contacts soon in the log.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-013, Log<\/h3>\n

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On the way down from Waun Rydd I had chased\u00a0GW7HEM on the summit of Pen Y Fan, he told me he was heading over here as well.\u00a0 As I returned to the car he turned up in the car park, it\u2019s always nice to meet another SOTA activator for real.\u00a0 Altogether a good end to another winter season in the Brecon Beacons.<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-013, Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 20th January 2019<\/p>\n

Postcode \u2013 LD3 7YP<\/p>\n

Parking \u2013 SO 109 187<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 MFJ 1714 LongRanger<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 7<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 2(+3)<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

GW\/SW-013, Walking Route Summary<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-013,\u00a0Altitude Profile<\/h3>\n

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GW\/SW-008, Cefn yr Ystrad \u2013 619m, 4 Points We arrived at Pontsticill on the Sunday for the final three bonused summits in the SW region,\u00a0Cefn yr Ystrad.\u00a0 Don\u2019t underestimate this one.\u00a0 It looks easy enough on paper but there is no good track to the summit.\u00a0 A lot of the time you are off track … Continue reading Cefn yr Ystrad, Waun Rydd & Tor-y-Foel 2019<\/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-359","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\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions\/972"}],"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=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}