{"id":1804,"date":"2021-06-06T08:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2021-06-06T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T08:03:03","slug":"tor-y-foel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/06\/tor-y-foel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor y Foel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"min-width: 260px; max-width: 100%\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outdooractive.com\/en\/embed\/212131552\/js?mw=false&#038;usr=2koj85&#038;key=USR-K9QPMS32-EMWGMGU9-4OSSTPFT\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can drive up a small lane from Talybont on Usk that does a lot of the hard ascent for you, it also takes you to a parking spot with room for a few cars and a small stone bench and seats. The walk from here is short and sharp, and the summit is crowned by a small stone circle, neatly laid out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51226422162\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226422162_d40e5b8d17.jpg\" alt=\"Tor y Foel\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>The parking spot is bottom left, Talybont Reservoir on the right. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tor y Foel is a very distinctive hill, pointed and well separated from the ridgeway that it is on so it feels like a hill on its own. It offers great views of the larger Beacons as well as over open countryside and the Black Mountains and Sugar Loaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51228214045\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228214045_fe487a8442.jpg\" alt=\"Tor y Foel\" width=\"500\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Views of the Black Mountains and Sugar Loaf. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a very popular hill, I saw lots of families doing it as well as groups of walkers. Tor y Foel is skirted by the Beacons Way, Taff Trail and Usk Valley walk footpaths so maybe people divert off of these paths to take it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51226437447\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226437447_62f98261b4.jpg\" alt=\"Tor y Foel\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Tor y Foel summit stones. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also easy to walk from Talybont on Usk, which has many good pubs making this a nice pre-meal walk to earn that pint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51229263530\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51229263530_ab717fdd51.jpg\" alt=\"Tor y Foel\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Beacons view. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A really good little walk in a really lovely part of the world, highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51228215145\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51228215145_a6129ffd65.jpg\" alt=\"Tor y Foel\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Summit view. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uponnothing\/51227893269\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51227893269_9e759c52f2.jpg\" alt=\"Tor y Foel\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Talybont Reservoir. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can drive up a small lane from Talybont on Usk that does a lot of the hard ascent for you, it also takes you to a parking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,6,43],"tags":[40,51,62,87,36,45,39,145,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}