Pen y Fan poor weather. There is also a major path from the Cribyn, a close-by peak to the east. The Storey Arms is an outdoor education centre beside the A470, the main trunk road between the north and south of Wales, in the Brecon Beacons National Park near Libanus, Powys, Wales. Run by Cardiff City Council since 1971, the residential centre can accommodate up to 58 people. Its activities include kayaking and canoeing, caving, hill walking, rock climbing and white water rafting. The centre is at above sea-level, along the pass between Pen y Fan and Fan Fawr, at the foot of
Pen-y-ghent language, exactly as in today's Welsh, "Pen" meant 'top' or 'head', and "y" is most likely the definite article ("the"), exactly as in Modern Welsh "y". These elements are common in placenames throughout the island, and especially in Wales (compare Penyberth 'end of the hedge/copse', or Penyffordd 'head of the road/way', etc.). The element "ghent" is more obscure, however: it could be taken to be 'edge' or 'border'. The name "Pen-y-ghent" could therefore mean 'Hill on the border' (compare Kent). Alternatively, "ghent" could mean 'wind' or 'winds' – from the closest Welsh transliteration, "gwynt" ('wind'). Thus it might mean simply