Following on from talks at the GW SOTA event yesterday, it seems like a handful of operators are keen to activate the Myarth, GW/SW-035.
I’d thought I’d start a thread and gauge interest on potentially doing a group activation, subject to permission. My initial thinking is a weekend in September, so that holidays etc are out of the way. It is also well clear of the Green Man festival.
If you are interested in potentially being involved in the activation, please reply to the post stating so and I will add you to the potential list. Dates available would be helpful too, but I may do a poll later on to get a specific date that suits all. It may be a forced hand depending what is happening at Glanusk Estate, I’ll keep this thread updated as the plan forms.
I would just like to advise in the past the Glenusk Estate didn’t really like big groups of people walking up Myarth GW/SW-035 and they preferred to have a maximum of 2 people walking up this hill at the same time. However, back in 2015, my dad Tom @M1EYP successfully arranged permission from the Glenusk Estate for 3 of us (me, my dad and my brother Liam) to walk up Myarth GW/SW-035.
Not sure if in recent years, the Glenusk Estate are now happy for big groups of people to walk up Myarth GW/SW-035, but I know that this never use to be the case as explained above. However, unlike Upper Park GW/MW-032, it is easy for SOTA activators to obtain permission from the Glenusk Estate to activate Myarth GW/SW-035 providing that that are either solo or company with ideally only one other person, but being in company with 2 other people can be possible on occasions also. I would suggest that for SOTA activators who wish to activate Myarth GW/SW-035 to sort out their own permission to activate this summit rather then trying to arrange a group SOTA activation which may well put future permission requests from the Glenusk Estate into jeopardy.
Thanks for volunteering Jared, but given Jimmy’s advice I’m more than happy to continue to arrange my own and Kevin’s visit separately if you want to do a joint with Mike.
The situation may have changed.. Looking at hillbagging there was a group trip on the 6th June with a group of 18. I’ll phone up and see what their preference is though, and see if it would be possible.