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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.

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Vivod Mountain and Y Foel 11th March 2010.

Enjoying lunch in the sunshine, but can you believe it?
Are we all smiling, we should be, NO MORE HEATHER BASHING!
Giving us permission to head into the Wilderness!
Heading off into the Wilderness.
A magnificent view of the Eglwyseg Rocks and Ruabon Mountain from Vivod Mountain.
The first to the top as usual. Dave and Richard at Bidduph Tower.
Our last view of the day! A view that has Dinas Bran on the skyline above Llangollen.


Walk stas: Distance:10.3 miles; Climb:1671'.
Time:5 hours 11 minutes; On the move walking average:2.4 m.p.h; Overall walk average:2.0 m.p.h.
Group:Martyn, Richard, Roger, Gordon, Celia, Tim, Sylvia and Dave J.
What a glorious Spring day this turned out to be. Perhaps not quite the walk that wea originally planned, but it was a wlk that will be repeated despite the "heather hopping"! With a little extra mileage we can probably miss out most of the "heather bashing"!
We nearly lost Richard as he headed off towards Y Foel when we wanted to go into the Wilderness! Roger and Gordon did their best to bring him back on track, and eventually Roger was successful in making him realise that everyone else was going in a different direction!
What a surprise it was to meet up with a couple of walkers in this remote part of the Northern Berwyns trying to find the same ancient tumulus on Vivod Mountain. Sadly with all this manpower, we can't really say any one of us was successful!
At lunch most of us (Gordon excepted, he ate his cake at the start!), enjoyed the last of Martyn's cake to enable them to complete the "heather hopping" to the summit of Y Foel.
Throughout the walk we had fantastic views in every direction.
Our last remaining event of the day was when a farmer asked us to go off the path and walk through his fields to avoid "spooking" a couple his neighbours sheep and driving them down to Llangollen!
Birds seen or heard today included:Blue tit, Great tit, Blackbird, Black-billed magpie, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Rook, Song thrush, Raven, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Barnacle goose, Ganada goose, Greenfinch, Pheasant, Woodpigeon, Kestrel and Buzzard.
After walk drinks were enjoyed by most of us at the Corn Mill in Llangollen.
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