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When? Started: 1993 Who? Started with staff and friends from U H S, Chester. Organiser: Martyn Harris We walk every Wednesday and Saturdays, New Years day and May Day. How many walk? Walks take place as long as there are at least 2 wanting to walk on that day. More walk on a Wednesday than on a Saturday. Most ever: 29. Current group size walking: 2-10 in mid-week and 2-4 on Saturday. Where do we walk? Saturday: Anywhere in North and Mid-Wales, Peak District, Shropshire and the Long Mynd and as far North as the Trough of Bowland. Thursday: Anywhere within about 40 miles of Chester. Type of walk: Distance: 6 – 14 miles (but usually under 10 miles). Climb: up to 4000’ (but usually very much less!). People involved on walks in 2020:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage, Wendy Peers, Celia de Mengle, Wendy and Ian Peers, Roger Smith, Paul Collinson, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Celia de Mengle, Sue Pearson.

Thursday 26 October 2017

Around Gwysaney and More 26th October 2017

Looking back towards Moel y Gaer.
looking across the valley from Bryn -caeTudur towards Tan-y-wal.
Gwysaney hall.
Fungi in the meadow South of Sarn Galed.
Fungi in the meadow South of Sarn Galed.
Fungi in the meadow South of Sarn Galed.
Sheep in the fields next to Sarn Galed.
An unusually friendly sheep.
Jim, successfully negotiating "Roger's stile".
Walk stats: Distance: 7.3 miles. (8 for Mike). Climb: 573'.
Time: 4 hours 9 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.1 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.8 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn, Mike and Jim.
A rather overcast day, but no rain worth mentioning, no wind and quite pleasant for walking. I don't know what Mike had for breakfast, but by the time we reached the Southern entrance of Big Wood, a usual lunch spot, it was only 11-09. trying to keep up with him we were walking at an average speed of 2.5 m.p.h. This was far too early for lunch, so we carried on for another hour and had lunch just after entering Ram Wood where we took advantage of a low wall, probably used as one of the horse jumps for cross country horse events.
 Pheasants were everywhere, so we assumed that any shoots on this estate hadn't yet taken place.
 On the climb to Sarn Galed we saw lots of Red coloured fungi with some looking very pink when they had spit open . These could have been Scarlet wax caps, but trying to identify fungi from books is never easy.
 Birds seen or heard today included: Blue tit, Long tailed tit, House sparrow, Winter wren. Black bile magpie, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Woodpigeon, Eurasian jay, Common pheasant and Common buzzard.
 Not long after starting on the extension part of the walk, Jim pulled a muscle, so we decided to cut the walk short and head straight back to he car. In fact Mike race ahead of and brought the car to meet us, saving us the last half a mile or so.
 Too early for the Blue Bell, we headed for the Britannia Inn at Halkyn, where the Lees bitter went down well. You can always rely on the Lees bitter being in excellent condition t this hostelry -  I'd almost forgotten how good Lees bitter tasted!

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