South Wales Snow - Lots

Going to work today I crossed the National Park from South to North - and noticed something worrying about the snow, that would affect the whole day. It was moving. During the drive the road progressively disappeared due to the strengthening wind transporting the powder snow and surface crystals - onto the road. We made it to work, to the news that there had been a drifting snow related accident on the A470 near Storey Arms. They closed the A470. Then the news that they closed about 6 other roads due to drifting. The Snow ploughs suddenly got busy - and continued for the rest of the day. Wow - this is South Wales !

Anyway - training continues, so I took 3 of the PT instructors (Cpl Edwards, Cpl Walsh, Cpl Lord) out for a bit of winter training. We had to break trail for miles through deep drifts of snow. When we could escape the drifts we were in the windward side of the hill in the face of the 50mph winds. A good test for their nav. They managed to complete all their nav legs efficiently and get back to the road for a timely pick up.

We got back just before the climbing team who had managed a quick ascent of the Torpantau falls (III). I hope to get there before it melts.

The road home had been ploughed all day, but still it was a very exciting drive. On the side of the road the drifts had built up to over 2m deep. I've decided to get chains !