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After Y Golfa GW/NW-061 on Thursday 12th April 2007,
we headed for Allt y Main GW/NW-059, and for the GW4BVE recommended parking spot
at the end of the high narrow country lane due East of the summit. But we had
forgotten something! The walk up the grass bank and along the first ridge, in
warm sunshine and with superb views was delightful, but then we looked ahead at
the forest - which had been felled, but not cleared. Disaster - our route was
impassably blocked. Looking back and upwards, I spotted a public footpath waymarker post. We
clambered up the undergrowth remains of an area that had been cleared of the
timber, and struggled across the twigs, holes and brambles with difficulty. We
reached the post and realised that we could have taken another footpath to it,
by earlier forking right from out previous path. We followed this path as the
waymarks zigzagged us down a bank and over a stream. Then we realised that this
simply connected up with the first path we had followed, save for the
considerable blockage of felled trees between this and the first point we had
reacher. However, where there's a will there's a way, and with Jimmy in the party, the
'will' is there by default. He spotted a well trodden route up by the side of
the northern extremity of the felling operations. This coincided with the
southern extremity of a felled and cleared area. This was steep, but we were
able to make rapid progress. Within ten minutes, we were reunited with the
proper surafced summit path, and able to progress unimpeded to the trig point.
We sat backwards on the bench to avoid looking into the sun and enjoyed another
easy activation with ten contacts coming in little over twenty minutes. The
descent seemed incredibly quick.
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