Saturday's walk -- Foel Offrwm
Jun. 2nd, 2024 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heleninwalesFoel Offrwm means "bald hill of offering", which is rather mysterious. There is an iron age hillfort on the top, but we were not going to the top, we were going to walk all the way round...
It's not a long walk, about 3 miles, but there are normally good views and it's always much quieter than the famous Precipice Walk. You start from the same car park, so I drove us there, parked and, after pointing a couple of tourists in the direction of the start of the Precipice Walk, we crossed the road and set off.
Obviously, being a circular walk you can do it clockwise or anticlockwise. The last two times we did the walk (last year) we went anticlockwise, so for a change we went clockwise.
The normally wonderful views were disappointing, due to a weird haze.
The route is not along public footpaths, but on permissive paths. That is the landowner gives permission, rather than you having the right to walk the path. But they've done a good job of making the new circular path and part of it is wheelchair accessible. Not this part though, but they have laid large stones to take the path over a boggy bit.
This is a more open stretch and there should be a wonderful view over to the end of the Cader Idris range and the hills beyond. But not today.
I love these isolated hawthorn trees that bend away from the prevailing wind.
Pretty, but a nuisance. Rhododendrons are an invasive species when the escape from gardens. There ought to be a mountain in the background, but it's vanished in a haze.
Nearly back at the start, Nannau Hall can be seen in the distance. Sadly it's in a very dilapidated state now. It's a case of the company that owns it refusing to do any maintenance.
And so we were soon back at the car and were home in time for lunch at our normal time.
It's not a long walk, about 3 miles, but there are normally good views and it's always much quieter than the famous Precipice Walk. You start from the same car park, so I drove us there, parked and, after pointing a couple of tourists in the direction of the start of the Precipice Walk, we crossed the road and set off.
Obviously, being a circular walk you can do it clockwise or anticlockwise. The last two times we did the walk (last year) we went anticlockwise, so for a change we went clockwise.
The normally wonderful views were disappointing, due to a weird haze.
The route is not along public footpaths, but on permissive paths. That is the landowner gives permission, rather than you having the right to walk the path. But they've done a good job of making the new circular path and part of it is wheelchair accessible. Not this part though, but they have laid large stones to take the path over a boggy bit.
This is a more open stretch and there should be a wonderful view over to the end of the Cader Idris range and the hills beyond. But not today.
I love these isolated hawthorn trees that bend away from the prevailing wind.
Pretty, but a nuisance. Rhododendrons are an invasive species when the escape from gardens. There ought to be a mountain in the background, but it's vanished in a haze.
Nearly back at the start, Nannau Hall can be seen in the distance. Sadly it's in a very dilapidated state now. It's a case of the company that owns it refusing to do any maintenance.
And so we were soon back at the car and were home in time for lunch at our normal time.
