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18th June 2018
Hiking - Walking: Rhaeadr Aber Falls Circular Walk Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: 8 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)
Monday 18th June – walk ***** Rhaeadr Aber Falls Circular Walk – sunny
periods.
Our second night in our remote little carpark at the end of the dead-end
road out of Abergwyngregyn. Turned out to be quiet and we had it all to
ourselves:) Woke to cloud but not as breezy as yesterday so after breakfast
we headed a mile down the narrow road to the carpark at the start of the
Rhaeadr Aber Falls Circular Walk which was £2 a day so not bad. We only
packed a snack as it was apparently only a 3 hour walk and set off up the
buggy friendly path which was a wide, man made and gravel. We soon passed
an amazing couple pushing their dear old mum up in her wheel chair and
amazingly they made it all the way to the falls:) This is not the sort of
path (too good!) you want to walk in the Welsh hills but luckily for us a
hiker we met yesterday walking back from the lake told us to bear left for
a better route - which we did. This was more like it the narrow but
well-trodden path soon left the made-up path far below! The scenery was
again amazing, even though the forest had been cut down a couple of years
ago and was a barren wilderness. The beautiful foxgloves and golden grass
added some colour:) The very impressive Aber Falls soon came into view,
although narrow it was a long drop. This route was taking us away from the
base of the waterfall where most go but to get to the top the path crossed
a long section of scree followed by some French style rock scrambling and
we were loving every minute. At the top of the falls we passed resting
sheep and continued up the Afon Goch (the mountain Stream) and was a
serious of small falls surrounded by tall mountains just fantastic. Our
mobile got some reception and we got several messages including another
great shot of Rob with Arlo asleep in his back pack and Hannah photo
bombing which was for ather’s Day yesterday but wouldn’t download with
bad signal in the mountains. While Mag replied I scrambled about taking
pics. I said it was the best day of my life:) We climbed down to near the
top of the falls for our snack before starting back to get to the bottom.
Instead of crossing the scree we took a shortcut straight down which was
scary and I did manage to cut the back of my leg but we made it! It was
then just a short distance to the base of the falls. Because it was easily
accessible every oaf from a hundred miles was there :( many wearing
flop-flops, velcro trainers because they were not bright enough to tie
laces, baseball caps on backwards and kids firing stones into the river
with catapults! The highlight being when one portly young lady just
starting back said ‘how much miles have we done’ I got Mag to
translate! We took a tripod selfie quickly and left for the Rhaeadr Fall
which was not far and nearly as impressive but because you had to walk a
rough track there was nobody there! The sun that had made the top of the
Falls really special as deserting us but it was still sunny over the sea
far below. We followed the path up and up and started thinking that this
walk was going to be longer than expected! The mountain tops behind us were
disappearing under clouds but we were walking to the sun:) We passed under
the electric pylons and got a view of where we had parked the last two
nights. With no sign of a way down we continued to Abergwyngregyn with the
most fantastic panoramas. Steve Carter was supposed to be windsurfing at
Llanfairfechan at 2 and we were going to be late but it didn’t matter - I
didn’t get on the water until 3.30 on Saturday. Then luckily the path
headed down to Aber but boy was it steep. I had my sandals on today and my
toes were much better – not sore at all. It was then a walk up to the van
and we were surprised we had done 8 miles being out for 4 hours! We then
set off to drive down to Llanfairfechan carpark – A road works truck was
going down in front of us making it difficult for cars coming up to pass so
I reversed up to help a farmer in a landrover towing a sheep trailer to
squeeze past and reversed into a dry-stone wall (strangely belonging to a
man we met the other day!) scratching the poor old van yet again!!! We
didn’t stop and nobody witnessed it – could be an insurance claim to
sort out for all the scratches and dents down that side now!!! When we got
to the carpark it was quite busy with several fishermen but no sign of
Steve. It looked pretty windy and southerly, cross off and I thought Steve
had gone to Rhosneigr, I didn’t think I would sail so Mag made a nice
corned beef salad but then she saw Steve miles out and I recognised his 6m
so it was all systems go as the windsurfing gear came off:)
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