Re: Nant Syddion.
Probably the hardest trip I’ve ever done. Cycled in via a gated farm track that had locked gates on the bridleway. The snow was too deep to tow the trailer whilst pedalling so I pushed. Drifts well over a metre in many places. At each gate I had to disconnect the trailer to lift it and the bike over. Then I lost one of the trailer locking pins in the snow so I had to cobble it together. Zip ties didn’t work but ironically the wire holding on the ‘close the gate’ sign did.
All told it took bloody hours of hard work, at times I thought about bivvying. Got to the bothy eventually to find that I had it to myself. Got the fire lit, had a brew and a hot meal, the stove is a corker! Pulled the two benches together and slept in front of the stove. No ghosts or other weirdness to report.
I thought that I might be snowed in but there was enough of a thaw next day to get out, this time via the forest tracks back to the Arch.
On another trip there three of us got chatting to a couple of people who run an adult toy online shop. They were a bit coy about it at first but told us a few tales. We met up with them again by chance in Cwm Orthin months later when Pete loudly remembered to all and sundry passers by what they did. But again, no ghosts.