A nice new notice at the start of our walk.
The path through Coed-y-Felin.
One fallen tree in Coed-y-Felin. two went under, two went round, neither were good unless you coulda limbo dance!
Enjoying the Sun on Moel Ffagnallt.
Enjoying a paddle!
Autumnal colours in Coed-y-Felin.
More Autumnal colours in Coed-y-Felin.
Walk stats:
Distance: 8.0 miles. Climb: 1382' (Wind assisted GPS reading, a little on the high side!).
Time: 4 hours 0 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.4 m.p.h. Overall wal average: 2.0 m.p.h.
Temperature: 7.7 Celsius (although it did feel cooer in the wind) - 11.2 Celsius (When sheltered and in the Sun).
Beaufort Wind Force: mainly 2 (a light breeze), but did gust to 4 (a moderate breeze od 16.1 m.p.h.)
Group: Martyn, Fran, Nigel and Ed.
Both the BBC and the Met Office weather forecast today were spot on, bright and sunny to mid-day, an hour of rain, sunny again for an hour and then rain.
At the start of the walk on the west side of Hendre Quarry, boot brushes had been installed, which we took advantage of at the start and end of the walk, which meant cleaning boots when we arrived at home only need a quick wash to ensure that the boot treads were all clean.
We explored two new paths through Coed-y-Felin, one at the start and the other that linked the road (on the wst side of Hendre Quarry) to the woodland.
The start of the walk through Coedy-Felin was along a pleasant woodland track, eventually emerging onto the roadsouth east of Cilcain Hall. It was here that we had superb views of the Clwydian Hill in bright sunshine and blue skies.
It was still blue skies and sunshine when we arrived at the top of Moel Ffagnallt, but we could see that rain was falling on Moel Famau and it was heading our way!
Although it was now lunch time, we couldn't find a sheltered spot, so we decided to battle on through the rain, missing out Moel y Gaer. It continued to rain, and only stopped as we approached the road on the west side of Hendre Quarry after we had ovecome the challenge of the flooded road (which Ed had already been through in his car having been diverted by the closure on the Denbigh to Mold road).
Ed remembere that we had past picnic tables in Coed-y-Felin, and suggested we should head there for lunch.
This we did, a plastic picnic table that dried quickly after we brushed away the leaves, that provided a pleasant lunch spyt in the Sun.
We heard from a local dog walker that this was a good spot for seeing a Little owl. We didn't see one, although we did hear some unual bird calls that were somewhat owl like.
Birds seen or heard today were very few, but included: Common blackbird, Common buzzard and Carrion crow.
As we arrived back at the cars, it started to rain quite heavily again, so we decide to head straight for home rather than head for refreshment at a local hostelry.
Whisky in my tea for me when I got home - this was he third week running that we had missed out on our usual traditional visit to the Blue Bell or other local.
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