Welcome to the Crickhowell Walking Festival!
Croesi’r Drydedd Wyl Gerdded yn Crug Hywell!
This year’s festival promises to be even bigger and better than in 2009, with more Walks and Events. Our walks cover the full range – from tough all day treks across the mountains and moors to easy low level strolls. There are many new walks in the programme as well as some old favourites. Numbers will be limited on all walks, so you will not be in a crowd – but please book your places early. Read the descriptions carefully and, if in doubt, please ask.
We have expanded our Events Programme, which is designed to be complementary to the Walks Programme. The evenings feature a range of entertainments from talks through fi lms to music, culminating, as usual, in our popular Twmpath on the last Saturday. We also have Doug Scott on Friday 5th March to talk about his life in mountaineering. Book early for both!
We are raising funds this year for Help For Heroes, the charity that supports members of the Armed Forces who have been wounded in the service of their country, and we have a real challenge in Walk 1 led by the RAF for those of you willing to raise some money and walk 20+ miles!
All we need now is for a week of fi ne weather so that we can enjoy the area at its best.
A fine but cold week of weather added to the enjoyment of over 700 walkers at this year’s festival. The biggest and most successful yet, the festival saw the development of the events for walkers and non-walkers. Principal amongst these were a talk from mountaineer Doug Scott, a Big Band Dance and a Twmpath. But also a number of smaller events took place involving children from local schools, a local historian as well as film nights.
The festival supported Help for Heroes and we are proud to announce that we raised £5461.48.
This year also saw the introduction of a photographic competition which was won by Steve Haslam. See the photo tab on this site.
Finally, in view of the success of the festival and despite increasing the number of walks we still had to turn many people away. So, the message for 2011 is book early and, if you want to get ahead, make sure we have your name and postal address and we will post a programme to you. If you booked a walk this year or last you are already on our mailing list, so need do nothing more.
