The Signage Project has finally reached the real world! The first of our new signs is now installed at the George Borrow Hotel in Ponterwyd, to welcome passers-by to the Cambrian Mountains. We have to say we think it looks really good: not too obtrusive (who loves “road furniture”?) but colourful, evocative and – most […]
WE’RE HAVING TO MAKE SOME CHANGES TO OUR PROPOSED WALK DUE TO THE FIRE DAMAGE FROM THE RECENT BLAZE, which extends all the way from north of Claerwen across to Rhayader mountain road, reaching as far as Llyn Fyrddon Fawr & Fach. The revised route will be only 8.5 miles, calling it a day […]
Who could ask for a better Sunday walk in the Cambrians – a lovely Spring morning and the company of eight CMS members? Essentially it was a circuit around the Caban Coch Reservoir in an anti-clockwise direction, starting from the Elan Visitor Centre. The route passed the Nant y Gro dam (of WWII Dambusters fame) […]
Anyone who thought they understood the principles of conservation grazing – using livestock to maintain a habitat in a biodiverse form – had something to learn on our Celtic Rainforest walk on 28th March, courtesy of the RSPB’s Julia Harrison who is the lead for the LIFE project in the Cambrian Mountains. It seems […]
A lovely warm, hazy Spring day on the very edge of the Cambrians greeted the eight participants. This was a quiet, understated walk with a little bit of uphill, a short road section, some farm tracks, a brief foray through conifer plantation and a rougher (off-piste) stretch through Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea) along “the tops”. […]
After the stunningly dry and sometimes sunny March walk, we’re sticking with the Elenydd for April’s walk on Sunday 19th. The plan is to take a seven mile scenic circular walk on paths and tracks around Caban Coch Reservoir with great views. Though anyone remembering the Percy Bysshe Shelley connection (a reminder, in the […]
Lovers of the tranquillity, landscape and bird life of the Elenydd may be interested to know that EDF, the French state electricity company, is applying to put up two anemometer masts at the iconic telephone box at the junction by Nant y Maen farm, in the middle of the Elenydd. You can see the exact […]
A consortium of bodies including Powys County Council are seeking funding for works to be carried out in the catchment for the Hafren/Severn which rises on the Pumlumon Massif, with major tributaries also starting their journeys in the Cambrian Mountains. The aim is to mitigate the risk of flooding for towns and villages including Worcester […]
CMS are delighted that Alys Fowler has agreed to join our President, Llyr Williams, as a new Patron of the Society. The Trustees believe that Alys’ work encouraging people to grow their own food in small spaces and reconnect with nature in a practical yet imaginative way, fully aligns with the Society’s […]
By something of a miracle, after over a month of drizzle and rain, the sun came weakly through to welcome us, and the other protesters, to yesterday’s renewable power station protest at the Senedd. There were 400 on the buses down from all over Mid-Wales, and more arrived under their own steam. There were […]