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(South Wales) Y Blorens Circular (3.28miles / 5.27km)

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  Bit out of our normal area for this walk as we were down visiting my sister, Elen, and her husband, Ali, in Y Fenni. I had never done this walk before and so was totally dependant on Elen and Ali to find us somewhere nice! They didn’t let us down. My husband, Edd, also joined us today. He suffers from an autoimmune disease called Sarcoidosis so he isn’t able to join us on walks often - any kind of hill work causes him a lot of pain. This walk was about the limit of what he could achieve - but he did achieve it! This gives an idea of the difficulty of this walk- although we were up at the Blorens trig point we really didn’t have to do much climbing because of the location of the car parks. All the paths were straightforward and clearly defined. However, despite being an easy walk, you are at quite a height and the views are spectacular! This was little Anwen’s longest walk to date. She did really well and thoroughly enjoyed herself!  Distance: 3.28 miles / 5.27km (according t...
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Llyn Anafon - there and back (5.66 miles / 9.10km)

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  Todays walk was a strange one. With Anwen at nursery, it was myself, Megan and Naini who headed back into the Carneddau to complete a walk we had wanted to do for a while. We weren’t heading up any peaks this time, but along a valley towards the foot of Drum and to Llyn Anafon ( Tlinn Anne av on ). We had meant to go last week but I, in true teacher during the holidays form, had been ill… so we rearranged for today. This walk is a wee gem. Just up from the ridiculously popular, overcrowded, and rubbish strewn Aber Falls, we saw only two other groups… and one of them were in the wrong place and were looking for the falls! Although it’s uphill most of the way, it’s a steady incline and all on a rough but driveable track. You get the isolation of being in the mountains but the safety net of a very easy route to follow. The views are incredible and we saw plenty of animals - the Carneddau ponies of course, and birds like the Ring Ouzel and Wheatear. This is definitely a walk we will ...
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