I'm still waiting for my bones to heal, so another quickie for me this month. Drove to Dolgellau, Parked by the old bridge at Llanelltyd and pedalled up the lane into Coed y Brenin forest. The weather was forecast to be heavy rain and strong winds and I didn't fancy either tenting (only got a cheap nasty tent) or hammocking (a tree might fall on me), so ended up in Penrhos Isaf bothy after 5 o'clock. Someone had left a full bag of kindling sticks by the stove, so I set about sawing some wood (green wet branches) hoping that the kindling would be enough to get them going.
It was.
Having toasted my toes I set to cooking and eating my dinner - sausage, onion, spaghetti and a Dolmio sauce. A cup of tea, some halva and a good glug of some scotch that I'd got for my birthday. I hadn't sawed enough wood to keep the fire going for long so when it died down there was nothing to do but go to bed. At half past eight. Of course, going to bed that early, I'd had enough sleep by 3 o'clock so tossed and turned for another 5 hours. I was glad I'd opted for the bothy when I could hear the wind howling and rain beating down as I waited for morning.
The morning after..
Half an hour of mostly downhill pedalling got me back to my car. Where I'd parked used to be the main road to Barmouth. I remember the long delays at this single lane bridge from the traffic lights that were there. I was surprised to see these still in the road :-
I'll bet a lot of you here won't know what they are. (though quite a few will, I'm sure).
So one more bivvy and this years BAM campaign will be over....
. No doubt the Authorities will be along to adjudicate 
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