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Storey Arms – Start of the Pen y Fan Trail

Storey Arms – Start of the Pen y Fan Trail

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Storey Arms – Start of the Pen y Fan Trail

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Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

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Location: Glyn Tarell, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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1. Corn Du & Pen y Fan loop from Storey Arms — Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons National Park

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Pen y Fan, Cribyn & Fan y Big loop from Storey Arms — Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park

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Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Corn Du Summit – Corn Du Summit loop from Ystradfellte

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David Howells

January 28, 2024

People don't realise how special this location is. This is the start of the famed Fan Dance. A load-bearing 24km, non-navigational, endurance test. The SAS pioneered it as part of their selection process, and it has become a personal test for most fitness junkies these days. The route takes you from here to Pen Y Fan, then descends down the steep terrain of 'Jacob's Ladder' to the Roman Road, which takes you down past the reservoir into a car park at Torpantau Forestry. Then you simply about turn, and come back the other way. Oh, yes, you're carrying 35kg, and you have to do it in less than four hours.

Alex Foxfield

February 6, 2023

The Storey Arms Centre is a very popular starting point for Corn Du and Pen y Fan, Southern Britain's highest summits. One advantage of hiking from here is that you're already around 1,450 feet (440 m) up. The place itself is an outdoor education centre that takes people on a range of adventurous activities.

DirkWi

July 9, 2023

It is good to know that there is not only a food stall in the parking lot (which will be redeveloped in April 2023) (which was closed at the time), but also a few hundred meters further, on the other side of the street, is a chip and burger stall.
(Although - as a Belgian - I have to warn: those fries don't seem fried, but boiled. After 30km and 1000 meters of altitude, even those were good enough ;-))

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Storey Arms – Start of the Pen y Fan Trail

1. Corn Du & Pen y Fan loop from Storey Arms — Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons National Park

2. Pen y Fan, Cribyn & Fan y Big loop from Storey Arms — Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park

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