Walking: Sugar Loaf

This was a very quick walk that we did in May, so this will be a very quick post about it.  Sugar Loaf was on our list of walks we would like to do and as we were needing to go to Abergavenny any way we decided to fit this in as well.  There are a number of different routes that can take you different amounts of time, but we decided to do one that would take us around 1.5 hours.

We parked in the car park just below the National Trust car park and headed up the hill turning left onto the main path that takes you to the top.  We decided to take the path that curves as it goes up the hill as this seemed to be the gentlest and my legs were a little soar after all the walking I had done that week at work.

The views you get from the top are beautiful, at least on a clear day, and you get a great view across the Usk valley towards the Brecon Beacons.  However, we didn't stay too long as there were quite a few people there already.  The route we took back down was much more direct, taking us down into the valley just where the woodland started and back up to the path we started on.

We always seem to be pretty luck when it comes to the weather and that day was no exception.  It was very sunny, but thankfully there was just enough breeze to make it pleasant.  This walk is pretty easy to access so I'm glad we went relatively early that day as there was already quite a few people.  There is a longer circular walk you can do that is around 3 hours long and we might do that in the future, though maybe more in the winter time when there will be less people.  I can imagine it's going to get quite busy up there over the next few months.