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26th Mar 2025  11:35  by Barry mt03

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

6th Feb 2025  15:18  by dewi o dre-gwyr

Gridref: SN 97792 12314   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Nice easy walk from main road ,plenty of shake holes on route.

Great views

1st Feb 2025  08:30  by AyGee

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 6/10

Great view of central peaks from the trig.

19th Jan 2025  09:00  by kingofthehill

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 6/10

7th Jan 2025  15:30  by RichardM

Gridref: SN 97794 12316   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Sheep tracks from road to SSE. Nice summit, great views.

7th Jan 2025  15:29  by DeniseMc

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

White painted with red dragon but small crack on face . Terrain better than expected- quad tracks over sheep pasture. Great Brecon beacon views in winter sun with snow under foot

13th Oct 2024  12:30  by Huw Watkins

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 8/10

Parked on the A4059 by the road turning to Ystradfellte, walked a bit onto the road then cut up to the entarnce to Cefn Cadlan Quarry then walked across the moorland to the trig pillar on top of Cadair Fawr , we then walked down the road and walked back on the road - 10.5 Km circular walk What 3 words - booster.scorch.named

©Huw Watkins
©Huw Watkins
©Huw Watkins

21st Apr 2024  14:18  by Sarahlou

Gridref: SN 97792 12312   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

©Sarahlou

15th Jan 2024  14:45  by Izzy Watts

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

18th Jun 2023  10:04  by Madgebabes

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 7/10

Walked up from layby parking next to the gate. Lovely walk with some rocks to climb for little explorers. Nice views too.

©Madgebabes

29th May 2023  12:08  by Lucyparsnips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 10/10

4th Mar 2023  18:04  by Zoe Evans Valley girl hikes

Gridref: SN 97791 12313   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Approached from main road to west via quarry. Beautiful sunset Car parking on the A4059.

©Zoe Evans Valley girl hikes
Beautiful newly decorated trig point It’s dragonised

19th Nov 2022  11:30  by daidragon

Gridref: SN 97792 12310   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Drove over from Penderyn and there was a parking spot everytime I pass they are always full so I pulled in quick and wondered up I thought the trig was nearer to the road and lost my phone on the way back had to sweep search luckily finding it. Trig has a nice view from its location and the weather was nice today usually raining or snowing when I pass here.

Cader fawr trig brecon beacons ©daidragon

2nd Sep 2022  18:15  by LizzyCrawford1

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 8/10

LizzyCrawford1

5th Jul 2022  09:00  by DanTrig

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Easy bag up grassy slopes from old quarry. First trig of the day. Afterwards we went to and ticked off Moel Penderyn, Foel Fynyddau, Mynydd Dinas and Broadfield trigs.

10th Apr 2022  10:23  by janineharris44

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

1/2 from Garwnant Visitor Centre. Walked along forest tracks and footpath. Easy to locate. Commanding views of the Beacons. Crack to one side otherwise good condition with spider and FB intact.

©janineharris44
©janineharris44

13th Mar 2022  15:35  by retired trigger

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

9th Mar 2022  09:34  by wandering_rjt

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

From Mynydd y Glog, tough and boggy at start of ascent after road. wind behind us most of the way. cloudy day so no views. trig has big crack on one side. returned to car parked down towards Penderyn by NRW Cwm Cadlan sign.

24th Nov 2021  00:00  by [email protected]

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

22nd Aug 2021  16:02  by Father Ted

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 7/10

Revisited today booth to find a nearby geocache and to take a photo of the pillar. Came here in 2014 on a wet day with a very slow DoE party. The rain destroyed my camera so this was one of the few pillars I have visited I don't till today have a picture of - till today. Came in from the minor road to the south.

2nd Jun 2021  12:59  by Toops

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Easy to park on the roadside and walk up

28th May 2021  12:02  by Dmorgan2508

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

8th Apr 2021  09:26  by reyjam

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 8/10

6th Apr 2021  13:50  by Seth7,CLJ &RLJ

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Parking at foot of hill. Track leads up to quarry and then Trig comes into sight. Pillar has a nasty crack running through one side (freeze thaw could damage this further in the future) Plate and spider in place.

©Seth7,CLJ &RLJ
©Seth7,CLJ &RLJ
©Seth7,CLJ &RLJ

4th Apr 2021  16:30  by gower lad

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

3/3 From Bryn Du concrete ring. Into forestry and stuck to good hard tracks sweeping anticlockwise via ambiguous 400m+ "summit", part of Taff Trail and more good track to reach tarmac of minor road, then short cropped dry moorland to approach pillar from SE. Superb northern horizon sweeping from The Black Mountain in west across the Fans then high Beacons and Cefn yr Ystrad in the east. Exited SW keeping to high ground, good under foot, to join busy main road just outside Penderyn.

8th Mar 2021  16:10  by Joanna

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 9/10

Easy uphill walk from car parking on the A4059 (just by the Rhondda Cynon Taf sign, only space for a couple of cars). I brought my 11 year old and it was his first trig point. Lovely views all around the Brecon Beacons. We also explored the quarry on the way up, and there were a number of Red Kites flying around above us.

16th Sep 2020  14:33  by BarryHorton

Gridref: SN 97791 12312   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Crack on one side.

11th Aug 2020  13:00  by Richofsebast

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Easy walk up from the main road stopping in the shade of the quarry for a lunch break. Too hot to be out walking today!

28th Dec 2019  14:10  by newestindustry

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

2nd Aug 2019  15:33  by asbown

Gridref: SN 97795 12313   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

From the road to the south.

2nd Aug 2019  15:33  by The reluctant trigger

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

2nd May 2019  10:50  by robcross

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

21st Apr 2018  18:11  by underhill

FB Number: S 221  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

cadair fawr, evening walk with pt 458 and cefn cadlan

1st Jan 2018  10:43  by vegibagger

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

with Adrian Rayner Picked up four bits of yellow plastic broken bits of sledge crack on side

29th Dec 2017  10:32  by trigging on an island

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Snow almost visibly melted this morning in the time it took me to climb this hill.

20th Oct 2017  17:51  by embatt83

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

22nd Sep 2017  07:20  by Clanfield Rambler

Gridref: SN 97790 12316   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Parked on A4059 opposite Powys sign by locked gate to old quarry walked up trig. Pillar has plug missing and has some cracking, good views

1st Aug 2017  12:55  by Juliebfitness

FB Number: 2219  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Parked just before the RCT sign on the left, started by gate and walked up path zigzagging and onto Trig. Easy find

Gelert & Laika

17th Jul 2017  11:20  by paulxtr

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Parked at SN985110 and headed straight to pillar. Good view but lots of flies at the trig spoiled the ambience so didn't stay long.

Cader Fawr ©paulxtr

8th May 2017  19:41  by Juliebfitness

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Gelert & Laika

14th May 2016  09:30  by AsherMarley

FB Number: 2219  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 7/10

28th Mar 2016  19:20  by jasper555

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

3rd Jan 2016  17:31  by Cheese Monkey

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Minging day today so managed to grab this one just below cloud level so still nice views

20th Oct 2015  14:15  by Ramblingpaul

Gridref: SN 97794 12317   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Pillar is cracked

6th Sep 2015  17:02  by Robert Kemp

Gridref: SN 97791 12313   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

23rd Sep 2014  17:15  by cmb1953

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

27th Jul 2014  11:00  by arranc

Gridref: SN 97795 12321   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

14th Jul 2014  12:35  by Father Ted

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Approached from main road to west via quarry with a group of painfully slow DoE kids. Gave them a lesson in triangulation at the top.

16th Oct 2013  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SN 97795 12317   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

5th Oct 2013  09:48  by Chalky

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Spider centre open.

15th Jun 2013  18:46  by Merthyr_boy

Gridref: SN 97792 12314   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 4/10

16th Feb 2013  09:59  by jonglew

Gridref: SN 97790 12316   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

A HuMP within the Brecons Beacon National Park. We walked up from the edge of the forest to the SE of the trig over rough ground sprinkled with shake holes. Several wild ponies grazing, not skitish, but they don't like humans coming too close. The pillar has some serious cracking to one side in particular; 3 sight holes open, the one below the FB sealed; cap missing and no plug. Very good 360deg views, especially to the main Brecon hills to the north - Pen y Fan and Corn Du very prominent. Returned by walking E to Llyn-on Reservoir over some very boggy ground, then along a suprisingly busy minor road that heads towards Penderyn - our next trig.

Pillar TP1838©jonglew
Pillar showing damage TP1838©jonglew
Spider TP1838©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP1838©jonglew

4th Sep 2012  07:26  by russie and sidekick

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

walked up from a road straight forward bag weather not the best spoiling great views

pillar
flush bracket
spider

5th Nov 2011  10:30  by ltrc

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

21st Oct 2011  13:00  by wood owl

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

15th Jul 2011  10:05  by martinc

Gridref: SN 97795 12316   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Slight damage with cracking to concrete and missing plug.

20th Dec 2009  13:30  by Tony J

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

10th Oct 2009  15:55  by [email protected]

Gridref: SN 97790 12313   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

3rd May 2009  10:45  by Dusty

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Trigpoint
Trigpoint from Cairn
Flush Bracket

18th Nov 2008  12:14  by Glaslyn

Gridref: SN 97790 12310   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Re visit to photograph. The condition remains unchanged the slight cracks do not appear to have worsened since my previous visit. Excellent views ,same simple approach from the A4059 as before.

©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn

6th Aug 2008  13:10  by gowrie

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

4th May 2007  13:35  by Trigger

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

22nd Jan 2006  11:18  by Glaslyn

Gridref: SN 97791 12313   FB Number: S2219  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Pleasant walk in off road ,great Beacons views,pillar suffering some cracking.

5th Jul 2005  19:10  by rhayader_wanderer

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Significant cracks on two faces and no plug, enough damage to warrent a downgrade from good but I've seen far worse. So nice to get back to the wilder trigs after the cornfields and towns of england in recent weeks

4th May 2005  19:13  by r.j.ogle

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

1st Jul 2003  12:15  by Crwydryn

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

5th Jan 2003  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Damaged  Score: 7/10

no plug; TP badly cracked at base - pleasant limest hill; decent moorland view

23rd Jul 1995  00:00  by mickandshane

FB Number: S2219  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Plug missing.

16th Jun 1993  00:00  by walkingdude

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Approximate date.