A Clwydian Hills Round from Pentre-celyn 25th November 2023

Not much wind, but just enough to make the wind turbines roatate.

Autumnal colours still on some trees.

A lot of dog activity over Moel y Waun.

More dog activity over Moel y Waun.

Nearly don to the crowds.

Not my most favourite section of the Offa's Dyke Footpath.

Arenig Fawr on the skyline.

Moel Famau on the skyline.

Time for a rest with Moel Gyw on the skyline.

The designated path through Coed Plas-y-nant.

Fungi next to the path through Coed Henblas.

The remains of an industrial building in Coed Henblas.

Walk Stats:
Distance: 10.3 miles. Climb: 1700’.
Time: 5 hours 27 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.2 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.9 m.p.h.
Temperature: 6.4 Celsius at the start. 3.4 Celsius as we joined the Offa’s Dyke Footpath east of Moel y Gelli. 8.0 Celsius at lunch south of Pen-yr-allt. 6.4 Celsius as we joined the road north of the cattle Breeding Station. 7.5 Celsius at the end of the walk.
Beaufort Wind force: 0-1. Calm to Light air, but in reality we hardly felt noticed any measurable wind all day.
Group: Martyn and Ed.
The weather forecast today was pretty good, and for once it was pretty accurate. It was on the cool side with very little wind, some sunny intervals (very few) and no rain.
However at one point Moel Famau was covered in cloud, so it was good to realise that we were in a better place today!
The surprise of the day was hearing the sound of Hunting Horn and seeing a good number of dogs running across the hillside. It looked like a training exercise s the dogs didn’t seem to be running in any particular direction and needed lots of encouraging to go where they should.
Once on the Offa’s Dyke Footpath, we had lots of good distant views particularly northward along the Clwydian Hills and westward towards the Arenigs and Clocaenog Wind Farm.
Birds seen or heard today included: Black billed magpie, Great tit, Stonechat, Winter wren, Common blackbird, Collared dove, Redwing, Fieldfare, Common buzzard, Eurasian jay, Jackdaw, Raven and Carrion crow.
Even taking the mile or two of road walking in to account, this turned out to be a very enjoyable walk. The only downside was not getting home early enough to clean my muddy boots outside before sunset!