Pale Heights - the start f the walk for one of my GPS's.
Not the best distant views of Wales that we have seen from this location.
Blake Mere from the path on its eastern side.
I can't even keep up with a frog!
The last of three field of wheat that we had to cross.
Walk Stats:
Distance: 10.0 miles. Climb: 641'.
Time: 4 hours 5 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.7 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.4 m.p.h.
Temperature: 18.4 Celsius, although with high humidity it seemed much warmer.
Beaufort Wind Force: o - 1/2. Mainly calm, but occasionally a a welcome light / gentle breeze.
Group: Marty, Mike and Ed.
The weather forecast for today wasn't good with lots of rain forecast for most places in North Wales, so it was a last minute switch to Delamere Forest where the weather forecast had only light rain for a couple of hours around mid-day. It waas just enough to make us put our umbrellas up, but all managed to get wet trousers as we went along a path where long grass encroached across the path just before we arrived at Manley Common.
Birds seen or heard today included: Song thrush, Goldfinch, Winter wren, Common buzzard, Carrion crow, Great spotted woodpecker, Common coot, Mallard, Woodpigeon and Lapwing.
Distant views today were very poor and we had a job to spot distinctive land marks like the Jodrell Bank Telescope.
Lunch was taken at Manley Common, but the grass next to the wall was quite overgrown, so we ended up standing or leaning against the wall, rather than finding a lower enough section to allow us to sit on the wall.
Mike was on autopilot and only checked the map occasionally so that we kept to the planned route.
A double quick walk as we arrived back at the cars before 14-00.
We were all happy to have had a good brisk walk, much better than staying at home just because it was raining all day in Bethesda!
After walk drinks were enjoyed at the Farmers Arms at Kelsall, now open again. Timothy Taylor's Landlord was the only real on offer. Looks like it is a dog friendly pub - dog biscuits were avalable and the harity box at the bar was for a dog charity.
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