It was bloomin' cold up the mountains yesterday – what this photo does not capture is a wind like a frozen steel blade.

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The heather is out on the mountain.

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Under the canal and into the woods that cling to the mountain. We climbed straight up the old tramroad, then zig-zagged back down along forgotten tracks.

“If you could have been here 200 years ago,” says the information board by the canal, “you would have seen a whole mountainside alive with the activities that made Wales the world’s first industrial nation.”

It must have been quite a sight.

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