Walking Festival 2008 - Other Events

RAF Adventure Day

The local RAF team invited children of parents who were walking to an alternative adventure day at the RAF camp at Cwrt y Gollen. There they were under the close supervision of RAF NCOs and Officers and were able to take part in a wide variety of sports and tasks. The RAF team is used to taking members of the armed forces on tough outdoor events, so this was an easy day for them!

Cordell Talk

Chris Barber is well known locally as a mountain guide and historian. He met and became a friend of local author Alexander Cordell, who died in 1997. Cordell wrote a number of books, many about this part of Wales, the most famous being The Rape of the Fair Country. Chris led a walk around the area that Cordell used for many of his books and to set the walk in context gave a talk the evening before. For more on Alexander Cordell follow this link: http://www.cordellcountry.org/cordell.html.

Geocache Event

In parallel with the main Walking Festival we held a Geocache Event.

Geocaching is an activity for those interested in navigating around the countryside, using a GPS or by map and compass and without a leader.

Caches are hidden at various places and the Grid Reference and clues as to their whereabouts published on the internet at www.geocaching.com.

For this event we placed six new caches in the hills around Crickhowell and in them placed special “gold” tokens. The first person to collect a differently numbered token from each cache won a prize.