The Guardian -
11 Feb 2023 07:30

Yr Elenydd, Powys: After scaling Drygarn Fawr, my mind turns to the quartzite contained within A bright, cold day promises firm going across the miry moorland that leads to the fine, remote hill of Drygarn Fawr, presiding spirit of what the late Wynford Vaughan Thomas called The Great Wilderness. It is precisely that, too, stretching from Machynlleth in the north to Bannau Brycheiniog in the south. I drive round to the headwaters of Afon Irfon and set off through forestry plantation, on a short ...
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