C2C is underway!
Dipping our feet in
Rhossili Bay
We started our section hike a couple of weeks ago. We'll be travelling from our home in Gower in south Wales to Conwy in north Wales, using the Cambrian Way from the Beacons.
We dipped our feet in at Worms head and then spent 3 days walking the Gower Way up to the edge of the Brecon Beacons. Pete joined us for day 2 and 3 and he will also be joining us for the last (and best) week. Next weekend we do our first overnighter, then one last day hike before we start the first of three weeks on the trail.
The gear is all sorted, the food is nearly all dried and all trains, hotels, hostels and camp sites booked. The only thing I am waiting for is some TNF underwear after they came top in a TGO test.
My base weight is around 22lb. Here are the major items I'm taking:
- Gregory Z55
- Akto
- Caldera Cone stove
- Vargo 1.3 ltr ti' pot
- Homemade GoLite quilt
- Insulmat Ether 6
- Montane Sportwool base layer
- Terra Converts
- Berghaus Infinity smock
- Berghaus Paclite smock
- Montane Atomic trousers
- Knirps X1 umbrella
- Salomon XA Comp 3's (Green Superfeet)
- Smartwool running light socks
- Pacerpoles
- e-lite
- MSR water filter
- Road Angel 7000
- Blackberry (in case I blog en-route)
- Loads of Granite Gear Air space/pockets/bags
As I'm a veggie, I'll be cooking 100% FBC style as I can make some great food, dry it and have no washing up! The prep for the food has been an enormous task, but more about that next post.
Day 2 in Parc le Breos
Day 3 and the end of the Gower Way
Labels: Cambrian Way, Wales
posted by Chris Cowell @ 10:50 AM
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I didn't even know there was such a thing as the Gower Way! Looking at the route it seems to be specifically designed to miss out all the interesting parts of Gower! ;-)
But of course, if you're local you've seen it all before anyway, so I suppose it would make an interesting change. Is the route clearly marked?
Still, it looks like you had a sunny start to your big walk. Good luck with it!
Paul
I was pleasantly surprised by the Gower Way - yes it did miss most of the best bits, but it took us to a few places we had never seen before. Very much a R.A. route rather than a hillwalkers route, but it got us to the Black Mountains!
The route was very clearly marked - 50 markers in all, and the official guide was pretty good too.
I think I've done some bits of it before, I may check out the rest of it at some point. Where did you get the official guide from?
You can order it here Paul:
http://www.gowersociety.welshnet.co.uk/GS_books.html#buy
Thanks Chris.
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