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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.

Saturday, 9 April 2022

Llanfairfechan, Clip yr Orsedd and the Druids Circle 9th April 2022

Llanfairfechan Beach at the start of the walk.
View over Llanfairfechan from the North Wales Path.
The bfirst Wild pony seen toad as we approached the quarry road.
Clip yr Orsedd here we come.
Clip yr Orsedd conquered!
The smaller stone circle.
The main Druids Circle on the skyline.
Leaving the shelter of our lunch spot.
The memorial to the American whose plane crashed at this spot.
Another Wild pony, west of Moelfre.
Two Red billed choughs foraging near the North Wales Path.
Snow on the Carneddau.
Some of the oung lambs seen today.
Young lambs trying the salt lick.
A family of black sheep.
Is this a Bluebell comin into flower in April?
Walks stats: Distance: 8.4 miles. Climb: 1686'.
Time: 4 hours 552 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.2 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.7 m.p.h.
Temperature: Minimum - 5.7 Celsius on the top of Clip yr Orsedd. Maximum - 12.0 Celsius in the sunshine as we sheltered by a wall at lunch time.
Beaufort Wind Force: 2 - 3. Light breeze to gentle breeze, feeling pretty cool at times.
Group: Martyn, Mike and Ed.
We arrived at our usual parking place in Llanfairfechan to find it was already full and ended up parking on the sea front. This meant a slight change in our route, and we saw a few parts of Llanfairfechan that we hadn't seen before on foot.
The weather experienced today was changeable to say the least, it never rained, but we did gert a few brief hail showers. We had more sunshine than we expected, that meant at times we were feeling too warm in our Winter gear.
A local postie assisted us in getting back on the path we wanted at a point where notices implied we shouldn't be going.
We saw no-one until we reached the the main Druids Circle, with three different grouples huddled behind the stones having their lunch.
We left the circle hoping to find a sheltered spot for our lunch break, and were lucky enough to find an almost perfect spot -  sort of sheepfold that had good wind proof walls, stones to sit on in the warm sunshine.
The highlight of the day was seeing so many young lambs, the perfect sign that Spring is on the way.
Birds seen or heard today included: Mute swan, Oystercatcher, Herring gull, Eurpean robin, Common blackbird, Common pheasant, Raven, Woodpigeon, Meadow pipit (lots), Skylar and Red billed chough.
Overall a very enjoyable walk which some of us celebrated with apint of Lees Bitter at The Blue Bell Inn at Halkyn on the way home.
One member had a double celebration - Everton won!



 





 

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