My walking friends and I have a tradition of Birthday Walks and this year mine was an absolute corker! A crisp, clear day with a blue sky heralded what was to be one of my most glorious October walks ever. We started out from the Talybont side of Torpantau car park (about half an hours [...]

It is around the first couple of weeks in August that wimberries or bilberries (Empetraceae) are ready for picking. These are wild berries found on moorland and mountains across a lot of Wales and uplands in England and Scotland. Wimberries look like small blueberries but are less juicy and more acidic, though just about sweet [...]

My wife suffers from what she calls, “ridge envy” and the condition is brought on by gazing up to the top of any stunning ridge, plenty of them in the Black Mountains around Gliffaes, and on spotting a tiny speck of a walker or two, she immediately turns green and wants to swop places with [...]

Once a week I meet up with a couple of friends to walk for about 2 to 3 hours and enjoy the hills we are so lucky to live in. Today, I revisited the Hermitage walk which starts in the Vale of Grwney, just above Llanbedr and takes you alongside the beautiful Grwney Fechan which [...]