A Wild Camping Dry Run

I don't think it will be a particularly "dry" run, but here we go. Rich and me are off to Brecon tonight for an easy start to a four day wilderness "expedition". Starting at Priory Mill Farm campsite in Brecon tonight, we can ease into the camping experience in a controlled environment with proper loos and running water, before we head into the wild.

The 75km loop will take us over numerous Welsh 2000 footers, we will need to find a decent camping spot for three or four nights and water for drinking and cooking. The route takes us over Fan y Big, Pen y Fan and Corn Du on day 1, we then head further West over Fan Fawr and Fan Dringarth into Ystradfellte for a pint at the pub before looking for the next wild camp spot. We start looping back on Friday via Penwyllt and Fan Nedd to camp somewhere near Bryn Melyn, hopefully making it back to Brecon by Saturday night.

75km over the Brecon Beacons

This will be a nice dry run for our two-week Sweden trip later in the year. I've done the odd overnight wild camp when working in Newport, but never done more than one night. So this will be the next step for me and a great challenge and experience. Rich has never done anything like it at all, so we're both exited!
Good opportunity to test some of our kit for Sweden. For me it;s the water filter, Rich has a few new pieces of clothing to trial. By far the most important test for us is the food. I've got us a few packets of expedition food, 500g of biltong, energy bars and I've dried some fruit for the morning pancakes. Finding affordable, nutritious, lightweight, well tasting food is not easy. Once more my 20% discount at Cotswold Outdoor paid off big time.

2 people, 4 days. Doesn't look much

So we're all set and looking at the weather, it'll be typical British mountain weather. Nothing like the early summer weather we had over the last week and a half. Instead of blue skies and near 20C we're looking at 5C on the tops and maybe 10C in the valleys plus some wind and grey skies with a bit of rain here and there. Nothing to worry about, but anyone could do this in good weather.

The worst seems to hit us on Wednesday, our day 1. But I know the route pretty well and have camped at our intended spot before.

Really looking forward to this and so happy that Rich is coming along and has come to enjoy this kind of stuff. I do like to go alone sometimes, but it's also nice to just do it with a friend or partner even and share the joy (or pain).

I won't be posting any updates or pictures before Easter Monday as I'll have my phone switched off most of the time.