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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: 2-7 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 2024:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage,, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Winston Feather.

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Gadlys, Nant-y-Flint and More 2nd March 2022

Walking in the rain!
Halkyn Mountain or is it Holywell Common in the mist or is just the A55?
Taken from Y Nant.
An unexpected but delightful show of Snowdrops in the north side of Nan-y-Flint.
A close up of the Snowdrops in the north side of Nan-y-Flint.
On the "delightful" woodland path above Nant-y-Flint.
"I don't care what you think, I am going over this bridge!"
"This is why this isn't my favourite woodland path at this time of the year."
The last time we were here, we were sent packing by a rather large bull that didn't want us to go anywhere near his girls!
Follow me!
"I always wanted to be a farmer."
Walk stats: 
Distance: 9 miles. Climb: 1100'.
Time: 5 hours 35 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.2 m.p.h. Overall walk 1.5 m,.p.h.
Temperature: 9.2 Celsius at lunch. 
Beaufort Wind Force: 2-3. Light breeze to gentle breeze, often helping us on our way.
Group: Martyn and Ed.
Only two of us today, most of the usual band found excuses to declimne the invitation to experience this delightful and varied walk!
Not put off by the iffy weather forecast we set off, it was long before I was regretting leaving my Leki at home, but using Ed's Leki like a baton we managed to get by until I found a suitable stick on the Nant-y-Flint path that I could use.
The rain was very light throughout and by lunch time it had pretty well stopped.
Lunch was taken at the entrance of the track to Maes-gwyn-nawr, using the stone wall as a perching spot if needed (we did this last time we did this walk).
after lunch in the absence of any bull we continued on the walk as planned, but did divert slightly to avoid climbing a gate next to a stile that was blocked by overgrown hedges next to it.
Birds seen or heard today included: Blue tit, Great tit, Rook, Winter wren, Common buzzard, Mallard, Herring gull, Common blackbird and Eurasian curlew.
We arrived bak at the cars, having had quite a challenging walk and disappointed that the nearby Stag pub did not have any real ale,
The Blue Bell Inn at Halkyn (now open from 15-00) came to our rescue and we could enjoy a pint of J W Lees Dark and enjoy the warm air heading towards us from the blazing log fire.






 

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