Nythfa House, HF Holidays
I received a bit of gentle ribbing and a few questioning glances when I signed up for the Easy Walk today (7m/900') but it promised views, a botanical preserve, ruins of an Iron Age fort, standing stones, and beautiful pastures - how could I resist? The Hard was 10.75m/3000', steep climb to a ridge, down/up to another ridge, repeat, repeat. Sounded a bit repetitive to me. I can do distance & elevation at home, on vacation I'd like to see interesting things, so I stuck to my guns. Sheila really enjoyed her hike leader yesterday and was ready for a more challenging hike, so she went on the Medium with him (9m/2000', ridges 1&2).
The weather was glorious again and I at least had wonderful valley views all day long. The going and pace were easy, and the conversation entertaining, so I had a really enjoyable day.
Sheila hiked up from just out of the right-hand side of the picture frame below to the first peak in the middle, along the ridge to the one on the left, back to the first and descended the ridge down and out the left-hand side of the pic.
Our two groups met up at the same place - the National Park Visitor's Center. Us Easy-Peasies having plenty of time for a Cream Tea. In fact, even the Mediums had a good amount of time as our bus seemed to have forgotten to pick us up! A kefuffle with scheduling meant we didn't get back till 6pm, which was a short amount of time to de-pack, and get cleaned up for our Briefing at 7pm. Dinner was again a scrumptious 3-course feast, and we had to waddle ourselves down to the meeting room afterwards to listen to an quite interesting presentation by the local National Trust division chief on local conservation efforts and trail maintenance and NT properties in Wales.
More of the same tomorrow!
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