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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:) Photo Gallery Here |
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