Category Archives: 5. North Wales

#297 – Return to Foel Grach – with a difference

Posted on 21/06/2021 by Paul Shorrock

For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in to a new window, then exit that window to go back – go on, it really does work! Just 2½ days after our Foel Fras outing (see … Continue reading →

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#296 – Foel Fras and Drum from Bwlch y Ddeufaen

Posted on 07/06/2021 by Paul Shorrock

For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in to a new window, then close that window to go back – go on, it really does work! The Covid lockdown had prohibited all but local travel … Continue reading →

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#284 – Cwm Eigiau in the Eastern Carneddau

Posted on 20/12/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back – go on, it really does work!) 2020 is going to go down as one of the strangest … Continue reading →

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#283 – Elidir Fawr revisited

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back – go on, it really does work!) It was near the end of August 2020, and we had … Continue reading →

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#281 – Bryn Cader Faner

Posted on 08/11/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back – go on, it really does work!) A week after our trip to Rhinog Fach and Llyn Hywel … Continue reading →

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#280 – Rhinog Fach and Llyn Hywel

Posted on 26/10/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back – go on, it really does work!) Our first period of Covid-19 lockdown had finished at the beginning … Continue reading →

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#277 – Cwm Idwal and the end of Lockdown – “Rhyddid!” (Freedom!)

Posted on 19/07/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back) After almost four months of restricted travel in Wales due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the  Welsh Government … Continue reading →

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#276 – Moel y Parc – Sheeptracks, sunshine and more Offa’s Dyke Path!

Posted on 06/07/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left-click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back) June in North Wales, and we were still restricted to five miles travel for recreation and exercise, whilst … Continue reading →

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#275 – The Offa’s Dyke Path (Northern section)

Posted on 22/06/2020 by Paul Shorrock

  (For the best viewing experience, left click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back to the text) It’s almost three months now since we were locked down in the Covid-19 … Continue reading →

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#269 – Y Gamallt and the Migneint

Posted on 30/03/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(Left click images to zoom in, use browser return arrow to go back) In my last blog post (see post #268) I made the comment that “You’re never far from a mountain in Wales”.    It also has to be … Continue reading →

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