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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.

Wednesday 15 May 2024

The Dinorben Arms, Bodfari, Around Moel-y-Gaer, Sodom and More 15th May 2024

The start of the walk.
The lychgate leading to St. Stephen's Church, Bodfari
The war memorial in the grounds of St. Stephen's Church.
The grassy path leading to Coed y Lan.
St. Stephen's Church from the Coed-y-Lan Path.
An Early Purple Orchid in Coed y-Lan.
Path through Ramsons in Coed y-Lan.
Heading up the slope rom Coed y Lan to Coed Moel-y-Gaer.
The path heading northward along the edge of Coed Moel-y-Gaer.
Bugle (identified by Fran) at the entrance to Plesyn.
Moel-y-Gaer Hillfort on the horizon.
Welsh Poppies  next to the path.

Look how far they get while you chat to a "Happy Bush"!
Friendly natives coming to check us out.
Moel-y-Parc above the Rapeseed crop.
The road  to Sodom.
A carpet of Bluebells on the verge next to the road to Sodom.
Yr Eryri on the skyline.
A pleasant woodland path heading towards the lane leading to Bodfari.
The Afon Chwiler.
Moel-y-Gaer Hillfort from minor road north of Geinas, Aberchwiler.
St. Stephen's Clock tower ahead.
Nearly there - not long before we have a meal and a refreshing pint!
Walk Stats:
Distance: 5.9 miles. Climb: 1033’
Time: 3 hours 24 minutes.
On the move walking average: 2.4 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.7 m.p.h.
Temperature: 17.6 Celsius at the start. 19.4 Celsius at the end of the walk.
Beaufort Wind Force: Max 2, just Light breeze now and again.
Group: Martyn, Mike and Fran.
The weather forecast today was pretty good, pleasantly warm and only a slight chance of rain later, hopefully after we had arrived back at the Dinorben Arms.
Alas the clouds didn’t play ball and we had a very light shower between 11-00 and 12-00. Thankfully umbrellas were just right to keep “our hair” from getting wet!
In the main the Sun was shining, so we could enjoy this quite varied walk with good distant views, especially across the Vale of Clwydians ant towards Moel y Parc and even the mountains of Yr Eryri.
This walk was primarily a recce of the walk that I want to do with my church (WEF), and to that end it proved useful. There was only one awkward bit in Coed y Lan, but it did take us a little longer than expected, but we did spot a short cut back to the Dinorben Arms that might prove useful.
Birds seen or heard today: Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Black billed magpie, European robin, Common blackbird, Common chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Willow warbler, Winter wren, European robin, Woodpigeon, Goldfinch, Blackcap, Dunnock, Common starling, House sparrow, Barn swallow, Greenfinch and Common cuckoo.
We all enjoyed our meals at the Dinorben Arms and two of us enjoyed a superbly refreshing pint of Purple Moose’s Cwrw Eryri.
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