Sue and I did this walk on 11 July 2021. It's walk 28 in Alex Kendall's Cicerone guide to Snowdonia North. Today it met our desire for just a short drive, and boots were deployed as we'd noted 'roughty toughty' last time.
We parked in plenty of space just before the first gate on the narrow road up the Pennant valley.
A 2km stroll along to the roadhead car park warmed us up before chatting with some D of E gold teenagers and heading up the hill to a ruin, from where the picture above was taken.
In the other direction, another remnant from the Prince of Wales Quarry that operated from 1873 to 1886.
The sun came and went as we looked across the valley.
We then descended past the two thick stone walls of the former winch house.
The rest of the circuit involved tussucks, bogs, and lots of bracken. The occasional stile helped to confirm that we were still on the right track.
Can you spot Sue making her way across one of the many fields of bracken on this route? Next time we'll leave it for a winter outing!
The 'Footpath Closed' sign that we noticed two years ago is still in situ on the path to the west of the road, beside which we enjoyed a lavish picnic lunch. We needed the energy from that to get through the final section of thick undergrowth before finishing in a meadow of bog asphodel and heath spotted orchids.
The circuit was about 11km, with 280 metres ascent. It took us over 4 hours.
From the top of the final stile before reaching the car - a field of blue sheep.
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