After Tim’s unfortunate leave towards Rhayader me and Josh, eager to continue the walk, headed towards builth wells were our hungry tummy’s anticipated a nourishing meal. Unfortunately, our lack of Tim greatly reduced our map abilities, and thus I and Josh ended up getting lost in the middle of the Cambrian Mountains somewhere as we don’t understand public footpaths. Any who, we managed to head down towards a road from the mountains and make our way for Builth wells where we had fish and chips, mmmmmmmm.
Our trail then headed south along the B4520 towards Brecon in the late evening, which involved me and Josh forgetting who Hugh Grant was, being scared and excited by the DANGER ZONE (which was making bangs and explosions all night) and eventually arriving at Merthyr Cynog where we camped in a random field under the meteor shower and lovely stars.
Our early start in the morning towards Sennybridge got us slightly lost in some more mountains as we planned to cut across for a detour, nevertheless, we found a public footpath and ended up in Soar, where we headed south and then west along the A40 to Sennybridge. After a short break at Sennybridge at around 2pm, we headed away from Sennybridge to dan-yr-ogof caves down the A4067, where our excitement for the finish line grew.
The lovely views and cool horses we saw at the Cray Reservoir kept us going towards dan-yr-ogof caves where we had a short break; from here we then decided to approach the SWCC through the craig-y-nos country park, our worst mistake EVER. After walking round a park deluded for at least an hour we came across the road leading towards the SWCC where our final ascent begun. After consuming our last energy tablet thingy, we followed the road up towards the SWCC, where we encountered Tim and Chris, about halfway up, cheering us on in there comfy, lovely and fast moving car. Needless to say, we were pretty knackered, and after a final push, we reached the SWCC were Tim and Chris welcomed us with delicious food and brilliant cider, yum. Overall, a great laugh and good fun, 150 miles next year!
P.S. Do a 75 mile walk and massage your feet it feels absolutely incredible.
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