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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: 2-10 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 2020:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage, Wendy Peers, Celia de Mengle, Wendy and Ian Peers, Roger Smith, Paul Collinson, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Celia de Mengle, Sue Pearson.

Thursday 18 December 2008

Halkyn Mountain and Moel Ffagnallt 18th December 2008

No I won't turn round and have my picture taken!
The group at the trig point on Halkyn Mountain, now restored to its former glory.
Thank you to whoever took the trouble to complete its restoration, trig points mean so much to walkers.
Part of the still working industrial heritage of Halykn Mountain, taken from Moel Ffagnallt.
I thought you did that when you're looking out from a ship,
not on land looking towards Moel y Parc!
Where am I? ......On the top of Moel Ffagnallt.
Walk stats: Distance: 9.4 miles; Climb:1834'.
Time: 4 hours 5 minutes; Walking average:2.6 m.p.h.; Overall walk average:2.3 m.p.h.
Group:Martyn, Roger, Richard, Celia, Tim, Gordon, Sylvia and Dave J.
Our thoughts today were with Sue,Michel , Christof and Danny and Sue's father and the rest of the family as today was the funeral of Sue's mother.
This walk turned out to be full of surprises. The weather turned out to be almost perfect, quite warm but not too warm, dry, sunny at times, but perhaps a little on the breezy side towards the end. This walk, somewhat contrived inroute, described by Tim as a "clover leaf route", a good description, if a five year old had attempted to draw a clover leaf. Nevertheless for me this is a magnificent walk with good views in all directions and its wonderful industrial heritage, both past and present. Advantage of past mining works was taken when we had lunch sheltering from the wind behind spoil tips! At lunch Roger presented everyone with a magnificent home made mince pie (not made by Roger, but made by Margaret as you would expect) and the Gordon too produced some mince pies. Our treats for the day weren't to end there. We went to the Britannia Inn at Pentre Halkyn, that wasn't a surprise since we had started there, but after bringing Sylvia a cup of tea, Sarah brought us a huge plate of chips and what must have been a loaf of bread and butter. What a wonderful thing to do, and needless to say not a scrap was left on the plate - you can't beat a chip butty, even Richard had one!
Birds seen or heard today included: Robin, Chaffich, Blackbird, Carrion crow, Magpie, Raven, Goldfinch, Fieldfare, Jackdaw, Collared dove, Wren, Housesparrow and Stonechat.



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