Roger at the trig point on Halkyn Mountain.
Hazy Moel Famau from the trig point on Halkyn Mountain.
A Willow warbler, south of Pen yr Henblas Quarry.
Lamnb feeding near Moel Ffagnallt.
"Mum, we don't like the look of those two men".
The view from the Millenium Memorial Cairn on Moel Ffagnallt.
The rampart on Moel y Gaer with Halkyn in the distance.
The information board at Halkyn.
Time: 5 hours 6 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.4 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.8 m.p.h.
Bearfort Wind Force: 0 - 2 (Mainly calm, but very occasionally usting to a light breeze.)
Temperature: Max about 14.7 Celsius - pleasantly warm throughout the walk.
Group: Martyn and Roger.
Another great day for walking, blue skiesand Sun all day, the only down side was duistant views were very hazy.
We aren't complaining, it was great to have a Saturday walk that involved a little uphill and only gave distant views of any river.
Across Halkyn Mountain were were seranades by Skylarks, Chiffchaffs and Willow warblers, what more could you want.
All was going well until we tried locating paths around Linden Farm. stiles seemed be missing and some headed into overgrown scrub, but a friendly owner at Linden Farm but us right, but unfortunately sents us in totally the wrong direction. Seeing him agafter an hour of going in circles, he eventually pointed out the direction we really wanted to go in!
My advice to any walkers - don't plan to use any paths that go anywhere near Linden Farm, west of Pant-y-Pwll Quarry.
If I remembr correctly, Mike and I had problems trying to locate paths and stiles in this area on earlier ventures.
Thankfully we got back on track and on familiar territory on Halkyn Mountain, east of Pwll Melyn.
It was about 12-25 - time for lunch and found two convenient stones on which to sit and enjoy our lunch.
I presented Roger with a piece of my mature fruit cake and in turn he presented me with some Margaret's Welsh cakes - I think I got the better deal!
Having spent so much time in the "wilderness", we re-routed our walk and headed directly on the road to Moel y Crio and onto Moel y Gaer.
The final stretch of the wealk was along the road from the Rhosesmor Primary School back to the car to the Common Ground opposite the Blue Bell, Halkyn - sadly not allowed to open under current Welsh Covid Regulations.
Birds seen or heard today included: Black billed magpie, Woodpigeon, Common pheasant, Carion crow, Jackdaw, Raven, House sparrow, Dunnock, Chiffchaff, Winter wren, Willow warbler, Meadow pipit, Blue tit and Skylark.
We arrived back at the car, just after 14-30, in time to get home to watch TV at 15-00, that is if we wanted to watch TV then.
Another day when we ended up we clean boots, but the biggest bonus for me was, I still had five of Margaret's Welsh Cakes to eat when I got home!
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