HAFOD ESTATE.4-6-12.

Staying in Llandrindod Wells me and Julie made the short journey to walk in the Hafod Estate via the spectacular Elan Valley.The weather was sunny and warm as we left the car park and we first visited the little church before venturing into the wooded estate.

We followed the "Gorge Walk" which took us above Rhaeadr Peiran.

Although there were a lot of cars in the car park we saw very few people as we were walking around.We headed for Cascade Cavern crossing many streams along the way.

After crossing Dologau Bridge the path crossed a lovely meadow,it was nice to get out of the tree's and have a decent view.

We followed a little stream uphill now,very narrow in places.

Until we reached Cascade Cavern.

We retraced our steps back across the meadow and took a different way back to the car passing the waterfall that we saw at the start of the walk.

As we were going to the Red Kite feeding station at Gigrin Farm we cut the walk short,only walking 4 miles of the estate with 1,000 feet of ascent.There are many more miles to walk i we will be coming back to explore more.

MILES WALKED       253

ASCENT                     63,400 

TOPS                          62.