The weekend had an unpromising start with heavy rain during the drive to Cheddar and also on Saturday morning. Continue reading
Alan, Claire and Stuart set off early Friday morning hoping to arrive and pitch camp before the forecast rain started. While passing through Chesterfield Plan B was hatched to call in at Grindleford Station Café for lunch! Alan couldn’t resist carb loading for an active weekend and went for the chip butty! Continue reading
Another great weekend with good attendance and a range of activities.
Alan, Malcolm and Flick went up early on Friday and walked from the hut along the bridleway to Llyn Crafnant, round the reservoir and back. The rest of us all arrived late on Friday evening.
Malcolm and Juan were attempting to walk from Capel Curig to Glyder Fach but I think conditions got the better of them and they were back at the hut early, only to go out again and do another big walk, or was it a walk to the pub? We never did get an answer!
The rest of us all walked to Betws-Y-Coed along the river, a nice 11 mile round trip hike, and while Adam and Gill decided to return, Alan, Graham, Flick, Shane and Lexi extended the hike to Llyn-y-Parc.
When we had all safely returned Malcolm (and Alan and Graham) cooked dinner for us all again.
Overnight a considerable amount of snow arrived and we split into two parties. Alan, Flick, Malcolm, Graham and Juan all went for a walk along the canal in Llangollen, while Shane, Lexi, Adam and Gill hiked up through the snow on the steep path behind the hut to a lake, across a very boggy snowfield and back down the Siabod main trail to the hut. Considering the amount of snow, the journey home was pretty easy.
We had a fabulous weekend and a lot of walking was done. As it was half term Adam and Gill went up a day early, as did Alan and David. Adam and Gill arrived at the hut on Thursday night then on Friday went off to do the Ingleton Falls waterfall walk, a favourite, while Alan and David did a 20+ mile hike. Later in the evening David was brave enough to have a go on Adam’s hoverboard, it’s quite the core workout staying upright on it.
Michelle, Rachel, Floyd, Alex, Shane, Adam and Gill did an 8½ mile hike starting in Malham Village, taking in Janet’s Foss, Gordale Scar, a huge section of limestone pavement across the top of the moor almost to Malham Tarn, back down the Pennine Way, onto the top of Malham Cove and back to the village. Alan, David, Lizzy, Amber, Malcolm and Raj all walked from Settle to Malham Cove, to Langcliffe, to Settle.
Saturday evening (for a small donation) we were treated to pasta with spicy peanut sauce, thanks Malcolm, followed by Alan and David playing music for us.
On Sunday most of the group did the Ingleton Falls walk while Shane ran up and down Pen-Y-Ghent before heading home.
Was an absolutely great weekend. Plenty of fun to have been had by all.
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