Trevor Rocks and The Eglwyseg Escarpments 24th May 2023

On the Panorama Road, heading for the Trevor Rocks.

Looking across Trevor Rocks towards Dinas Bran.

Even Dinas Bran needs repairs!

Strolling out across Trevor Rocks.

Nearly at the top of Tevor Rocks.

Made it!

Which way now?

Th Eglwyseg Escarpments ahead.

Crossing the Eglwyseg Escarpments.

The view from my lunch spot.

the countouring path heading towards The eglwyseg Plantation.

At the cairn before decending to the cars.

Final views towards the East.

Walk stats:
Distance: 9.5 miles. Climb: 1844’.
Time: 5 hours 29 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.1 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.7 m.p.h.
Temperature: 17.2 Celsius at the start. 12.6 Celsius as we crossed the Eglwyseg Escarpments. 21.2 Celsius at lunch in a sunny and sheltered spot near World’s End.
Beaufort Wind Force: Max - 3, briefly reaching a pleasant 9.8 m.p.h. gentle breeze as we crossed the more exposed parts of the Eglwyseg Escarpment.
Group: Martyn, Sue and Michel, Mike, Nigel and Ed.
Almost a perfect day for walking weather-wise – I didn’t need to change my shirt at lunch time and only used one handkerchief throughout the walk – my washing machine will wonder why it is getting a rest!
Once again, we decided to complete the walk in the reverse direction to the way that we have done this walk in the past, a bonus as we did the roads walking at the start. It had the disadvantage that we had the steady climb across the Trevor Rocks.
Throughout the walk we had a pleasant cooling gentle breeze (9.8 m.p.h) that at times was sufficient to blow my sun hat off.
Distant views were somewhat hazy, although the Llantysilio Mountains were easily identified.
We explore one new path which helped us to maintain height as we contoured around the Eglwyseg Escarpments before meeting up with the original planned route.
The bonus today was the number of times we heard the Cuckoo calling, starting as we arrived at the start point and heard just before we dropped down to the car at the end of the walk.
Birds seen or heard today included: Cuckoo, Meadow pipit, Skylark, Willow warbler, Stonechat, Raven, Jackdaw, Carrion crow, Common pheasant and Common chaffinch.
We did see a bird of prey, but it wasn’t identified with any certainty.
Lunch was taken as we approached World’s End, no luxury of a picnic table today, just down to earth sitting on the grass bank!
Most of the hard work had been done before lunch, although we did have one final steep accent along the wall before following the path on higher up than the Trevor Rocks.
Towards the end we had good distant views of a viaduct (train seen crossing it by some).
Overall a very enjoyable walk, worthy of celebrating with the very quaffable Serin brew from the local Sandstone Brewery when we visited the Sun Inn at Trevor. A pot of tea had to suffice for some. It was still so warm, we sat outside.