In the early hours of Saturday 7th June, the teams taking on the Tŷ Hafan Welsh 3 Peaks arrived in Llanberis to start the three mountain challenge. With the first team setting off at 4am, the skies were dark and, as we pulled into the car park, the rain started falling. It was going to… Read More
Cadair Idris, my personal favourite mountain of the Welsh 3 Peaks. But also the most challenging, especially after climbing Yr Wyddfa. This would be the mountain that pushed the teams on the Tŷ Hafan Welsh 3 Peaks to the limit! To download any of the photographs, simply click on a photo, then right click and… Read More
Even though Pen-y-Fan is the lowest and final mountain of the Tŷ Hafan Welsh 3 Peaks, it still requires climbing. And after climbing Yr Wyddfa and Cadair Idris, there were many tired legs setting off across the bridge and up to the summit. To download any of the photographs, simply click on a photo, then… Read More
On June 29th 2022, the 10nTaff team assembled at Tŷ Hafan ready for the drive up to Betws-y-Coed. Lloyd Davies, from key sponsor Convey Law and supplied by PSM Sportswear, unveiled the fantastic kit for the challenge and both staff and families congregated outside the hospice to cheer the team as they left for North… Read More
The first day of the 10nTaff for Tŷ Hafan was always going to be the toughest. We were climbing the five highest mountains in the whole of Wales in one day. With our guide Jim Rigby, we set off to climb the first two mountains at 07:20am and finally got back to the minibuses after… Read More
Overnight, after completing stage 1 and climbing the five highest mountains in North Wales, we drove down to South Wales and the first mountain of day 2 Fan Brydeiniog. The only sleep we got was in the minibus, which was limited. During the drive down we had received the news that our guide, Jim Rigby,… Read More
After two days of climbing mountains, the 10nTaff team took to their bicycles, driven up the night before by Daniel Davies-Hale. At Brecon they were joined by Lloyd Davies from Convey Law, who had to withdraw from the mountain stages due to a foot injury, John Lowes and Huw Jones. In damp, often rainy conditions,… Read More
Finally, after two postponements, the 10nTaff is on for 2022! With the challenge of climbing 10 mountains and cycling from Brecon to Cardiff in 55 hours, serious training resumed in January. I managed 15 walks covering 74 miles in 24 1/2 hours, ascending over 10,600 feet. The weather went from torrential rain to freezing cold… Read More
The special Tŷ Hafan Christmas carol concert in the beautiful Llandaff Cathedral was the perfect start to the 2021 festive season. Hosted by the wonderful Lucy Owen, the audience was treated to stunning performance by the Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir and a first post-Covid lockdown rendition from the Treorchy Male Voice Choir. Professor Tony Curtis,… Read More
Training for the 2022 10nTaff challenge for Tŷ Hafan has been tough in August 2021. An ongoing back issue has restricted the training, although I managed 15 walks covering 69 miles in 23 hours, ascending over 11,000 feet. The weather was typically Welsh, ranging from warm evenings to heavy downpours and ending with cooler Autumnal… Read More