Wednesday 26 July. To source?

We left Cwmbiga at 9:45 am in steady rain heading up last year's route to the source of the Severn. The weather cleared slightly on the way up, hence a reasonable photograph, but then the rain and wind worsened.

It was cold and windy and wet as we passed the turn off to the Severn source on the way to the Carreg Wen.

We followed this route heading for Pumlumon Arwystli (740m) but visibility was atrocious, wee could not see from one direction pole to the next. Forr safety we headed east to pick up the forest bounday fence and climbed up, passing through a gate to the summit.

We had planned to follow along the ridge line fence down to 724m and a point up above the source of the Wye but the weather was terrible and visibility was very poor so we opted to loose height quickly down the edge of the forest.

Part way down, around 1pm, it gradually started to clear and we ffound our way by forest tracks to the top of the Wye path which we then followed back to the junction between it and the Severn Way and thence back to Cwmbiga which we reached at 5:45 pm. A long, wet and cold day.