Alerts

Book your places now by clicking on the links below: Tue 10 Dec 2024 SWOAPG Annual General Meeting (online) – for SWOAPG Members and their staff; including the usual ‘formalities’, a presentation on the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Sustainable Tourism Strategy; and discussion around proposals for monitoring engagement with public incidents in gorges; responding to the Glasbury-Hay concordat … Read more

We have received the following from BBNPA: The telephone at Cwm Porth (01639 722309) is now back in action, so providers should resume pre-booking parking spaces before 10am (or e-mail cwmporth@beacons-npa.gov.uk up to 24 hours in advance). In addition to the Hepste Bridge Road closure for the rest of this week (until Fri 22 Nov)… The … Read more

Bookings are now open for next Friday’s CPD workshop joining Alan Bowring (Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority’s Geopark Development Officer) for an exploration of the geology, history and stories of the Black Mountain and its famous lakes. For details and bookings visit Fri 15 Nov 2024 CPD Workshop: Learn about…the Black Mountain. NB places are … Read more

NRW has alerted us to an unstable column of rock on former footpath 86 above the Upper Mellte gorge and has issued the attached amendment to the Concordat access map with the addition of a new ‘fragile – no go zone’ area and request that users should stay river-right immediately above Sgwd Clun Gwyn Isaf.

We have received the following from BBNPA: The telephone at Cwm Porth is currently out of action, so for the time being providers do not need to pre-book parking spaces (or can continue to book in advance by e-mail); we’ll send an update once fixed. More significantly, the access road (Hepste Bridge Road) to the … Read more

Please contact james@callofthewild.co.uk if this is yours or you know whose it might be!

Thanks to Ryan Stamp of Storey Arms for this message and photos: “A large limb has fallen from a tree at Blaen y Glyn, blocking the path. It is river left, just downstream of the upper wooden footbridge.” Take care out there!

We have received confirmation that these works have now been completed and the contractors have moved offsite. We have received the following notification from Monmouthshire County Council: “I write to inform you of works which will temporarily restrict the availability of parking commonly used to access Ogof Clogwyn.  “Contractors working on behalf of MCC will … Read more

James Martin of Call of the Wild has advised us that “a tree has fallen at the top of the cascade not really causing any issues but there has been a bit of a land slip with it. Also there is a tree crossing the footpath near to the gabion steps used to access the … Read more

We have received the following message from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water. Although they say they “do not envisage any problems with any increased flooding risk downstream”, when previously they did this the water level did reach the top of the ledge at the Porth yr Ogof main entrance (although it quickly subsided), so it could … Read more