Sunday 15th April saw 6 people from PT Troop conduct a 27 k yomp over the Brecon Beacons. Some of the most severe terrain in the Brecons was chosen as the group was so elite. The first feature tackled was “VW Valley,” so named not just because of the extreme series of climbs and descents, but because candidates on military courses crossing it are induced into “voluntary withdraw” from the course.
No non-hackers in PT-Troop though – after 3 hours walking the group broke for lunch at a beautiful reservoir, followed by another hard but beautiful stretch to visit a memorial to a Canadian Lancaster Bomber, which crashed in bad weather in 1941.
Tom of course had to stop and do his Ray Mears bit – a green lizard was captured and make to pose for the benefit of PT-Troop.
After another breathtaking stretch, encompassing features like Fan-y-Big, James Tucker lead a small group to climb Cribyn, the rest of us tired enough already!
Only then, after 7 hours walking the group decided to climb “Jacobs Ladder,” a rocky feature leading to the summit of Pen-y-Fan, the highest point in South Wales.
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