{"id":2104,"date":"2021-06-01T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:38:28","slug":"gorllwyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/gorllwyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorllwyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mountain rank by height: 181 out of 188<br>Height: 2,011ft | 613m<br>Region: Central Wales<br>Grid ref:  SN 91795 59052 <\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"min-width: 260px; max-width: 100%\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outdooractive.com\/en\/embed\/211690669\/js?mw=false&#038;usr=2koj85&#038;key=USR-K9QPMS32-EMWGMGU9-4OSSTPFT\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gorllwyn is a 613m high Mountain in Central Wales above the Elan Valley. It is fairly close to Drygarn Fawr, although the walk between the two is definitely not an easy one. I walked this via the route above, with Gorllwyn being the third summit of the day &#8211; a day that was proving to be a real slog.<\/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\/51226078880\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226078880_2655eb846d.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gorllwyn is the distant lump, if you zoom in you can see the two cairns. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The path from Drygarn Fawr starts off well, but at the point you cross the route up the path becomes a lot less distinctive and is easy to lose and often you&#8217;re just vaguely trying to follow anything that looks like a path, avoiding as best you can the frequent boggy areas.<\/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\/51225221058\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51225221058_884a91f39e.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Not very dramatic, not very prominent, not fun to walk. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually you can see the large cairn on top (not at the summit trig point) and then the summit trig point, which is also a kind of cairn \/ shelter. You just head as best you can in the direction of the left cairn which is home to the trig point.<\/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\/51226079380\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226079380_07c9ca2bd5.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Nice trig point though, can&#8217;t fault it for that. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the will power to walk to the slightly lower cairn, after running out of water at around 7 miles in by this point all I had left was one cake of Coke Zero so I didn&#8217;t want to do any additional miles, especially without paths.<\/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\/51226092395\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51226092395_465e630185.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gorllwyn. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The views were good, the trig point and cairn offered some decent photos, but this part of Wales just seems very bleak and empty. I was totally alone and the lack of paths just made everything worse. It is hard to explain really, looking at the photos it seems like a pleasant walk and nice landscape, but being there it was just something different. <\/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\/51225022076\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51225022076_d1089ba6d6.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>You can see the other cairn in the distance in this photo. | Gorllwyn. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it was the nature of the unrelenting boggy and uneven ground, that every mile felt like 5 and the distances took what felt like an eternity to cover. Not a mountain I can ever see myself returning to, but I am glad I did it.<\/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\/51224312917\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51224312917_02f289909d.jpg\" alt=\"Gorllwyn\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Gorllwyn. | Tamron Adaptall SP 24-48 @ 24mm, f11.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain rank by height: 181 out of 188Height: 2,011ft | 613mRegion: Central WalesGrid ref: SN 91795 59052 Gorllwyn is a 613m high Mountain in Central Wales above the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,6,172],"tags":[207,51,87,36,39,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themanualphotographer.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}