June 2021- (with Glyn) Ascent from Blaen y Glyn Isaf. Great walk up alongside the river through the wooded valley, passing many waterfalls to start before the steep pull up to the Cwar y Gigfran escarpment. In the cloud by now but a straightforward walk to the memorial. On the 6 July 1942, Wellington Bomber No. R1465 took off from the Operational Training Unit at Wellesbourne Mountford, near Stratford upon Avon for a cross country flight training exercise. In heavy cloud conditions the pilot appears to have decided to descend from his advised level of 10,000 feet, to try and fix his position. In doing so, he hit the summit of Waun Rydd in a flat high speed crash. The crew of five Canadians all died and are buried in Hereford. Plenty of wreckage still here, whitened by time and the elements, over 70 years on. The summit of Waun Rydd was totally in flag but we enjoyed the return along the Graig Fan Las and Craig yr Fan Ddu escarpments. Another lovely waterfall towards the end.