{"id":7202,"date":"2020-12-13T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:38:37","slug":"hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hills!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a normal year, a weekend of solo running in North Wales mightn’t warrant an entire blog post. However, this year any chance to get up a hill is a treasure out of which every last morsel of enjoyment must be wrung. So I took a bunch of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh boy, this is such a good looking ridge line. The view from Moel Eilio towards Snowdon.
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Having descended the Snowdon Ranger path, I went looking for the route up through the woods on the opposite side of the valley. This looks… promising?
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Heading up the SE ridge of Mynydd Mawr. It turned out to be a lovely little route.
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Second proper uphill of the day.
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The boundary between sunshine and cloud, behind me on the Nantlle Ridge. Fortunately I stayed on the sunny side!
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Impressive! Craig y Bera, and the Nantlle Ridge beyond.
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There’s a scramble in the Steve Ashton Book of Death somewhere around here. It all looks very<\/em> loose and chossy close up, though.
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My first time seeing the view from the top of Mynydd Mawr. No idea why I’ve never been up there before, but the view out to the Lleyn is amazing.
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Delightful heathery singletrack follows the technical rough stuff which is found higher up.
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Having almost reached the bottom of the last hill of the day (Mynydd Mawr), I was presented with a nice view of the first (Moel Eilio).
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Progress ground to a halt at this point. Luckily there was a sneaky side path to get me back to the car.
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The next morning – a slog up Drum from Aber, and I find the ponies have beaten me up there.
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Just a sheep.
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Drum from Foel-fras. Covid rules at the time meant that the left-hand side of the fence (Gwynedd) was open to visitors, but being on the right-hand side of the fence (Conwy) was illegal.
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Breakin’ the law, breakin’ the law!
(I’m very sorry, I won’t do it again. I was just one foot. Crime doesn’t pay, kids).
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Two days in a row of being on the right side of a weather window. I had about 20 minutes of cloud cover and the rest was lovely sunshine.
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Summit of Gyrn Wigau. You’d never deliberately head up there when the rest of the iconic Carneddau are towering over it, but I highly recommend it.
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A puzzle to finish the weekend – how can a circular route go in three directions?!
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