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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, 14 April 2021

A Huw Tom Trail Start, Foel Lus and More 14th April 2021

The beach view from Dwygyfylchi.
The sea still comes rolling in.
The infamous Penmaenmawr Quarry clock.
Ed at the New York Cottages, Penmaenmawr.
The miners' cottages on Erasmus Street.
At the start of the Jubilee Path around Foel Lus.
At the top of Foel Lus.
One of the many Wheatears seen today
A foel an mare on Waen Gyrach.
The valley track back to Dwygyfylchi.
Millenium stones at Dwygyfylchi.
Distance: 8.4 miles. Climb: 1360'.
Time 5 hours 8 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.4 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.6 m.ph.
Beaufort wind forces: 0 - 2 (Calm to light breeze - mainly the former.).
Temperature: Max 12.2 Celsius, but felt cooler out of the Sun.
Group: Martyn and Ed.
This could truthfully be described as a perfect day for walking, wall to wall blue sky for 90 of the walk, hardly any wind and warm sunshine enough to make you feel good! Definately a hkorts day!
The main objective of the walk wasto include the start of the Huw Tom trail that we missed out last week, but that only about three miles of our walk.
We started the walk from Dwygyfylchi and headed for the beach and onto Penmaenmawr. it was over sixty years ago that I last set foot on this beach!
The view towards te coast were superb, wih the Irish Sea looking blue and distance clouds looking like a mountain range. everyone we saw out walking spoke to us, whether in reply or being the first to say hello. what a good uplifting day this was!
After visiting the top of Foel Lus, we descended to the Huw Tom Tail, and had lunch at the same place as last week, but thankfullthis tim t was in sunshine and there was no hail!
Birds seen or heard today included: Greenfinch, Herring gull, Common blackbird, Chiffchaff, European robin, Winter wren, Skylark, Meadow pipit, European robin, Willow warbler, Common buzzard, Wheatear, Carron crow, Jackdaw, Raven, Collared dove, Stonechat, Meadow pipit, Black billed magpie and Skylark.
We arived back at the start, having has had wha was probably our best walk inthe "Welsh Stay n Wales" directive in 2021.

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