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Holyhead Mountain and Hut
Circles: March 2020
On my first attempt to climb Holyhead
Mountain this year it was too windy. A week later I had another opportunity. It
wasn't so windy, but it was foggy.
Since I had more time on my hands, I
continued on round the coast (anti-clockwise) and found myself at one of the
local Hut Circle sites (the area is circled in red below) I had been meaning to
visit since last year.
A copy of the information board at the site - click
for a bigger picture
Below are photographs I took of some of the hut
circles to be found at the site.
After visiting here I continued on
round the coast to Trearddur Bay.
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Snowdon 4: November 2019
I returned to climb Snowdon for the 4th
time, although frozen snow near the top prevented me from making it to the
summit on this occasion; great views though.
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Round Holyhead
Mountain: November 2019
My sister fancied a walk round Holyhead
Mountain, so off we went. Here are some pictures she took of me taking pictures:
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Menai, Llanberis, Aber Falls:
October 2019
Keen to get one more drive and day of
walking out of October I headed off out one early morning not really knowing
where to go. Chasing the early morning light I first grabbed some shots of the
sunrise and clouds over the Menai Bridge and Straits.
Then to Llanberis for the sunrise
beyond Dolbadarn Castle:
And a short way on from there in the
direction of Betws-y-Coed, a misty view:
I then headed north to Conwy, then west
to Aber Falls where I ultimately ended up.
This day features in
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Snowdon 2&3: October 2019
I had some time to spare between
clients so I took the opportunity early in October to return to Snowdon's Rhyd
Ddy Path, although I only walked it as far as the cloud layer which was higher
up on this occasion.
A couple of weeks later I
set off early and challenged myself with the Watkin Path; more of a hefty climb
than the previous.
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Bedgellert Forest:
September 2019
After my first climb up Snowdon (see
below), I was keen to return to the area, but I wasn't in the mood for another
hike up the mountain itself, so I wandered around in Bedgellert Forest; from
here I enjoyed nice views of Snowdon.
There is a nice lake
within the forest and picnic benches too.
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Snowdon 1: September 2019
Since recently acquiring a car I decided to make use
of it by taking myself off out for drives, the first of which was to Snowdon so
that I could finally climb it.
I took the Rhyd Ddu path and made the climb in good
time although the top was hidden in cloud, not without finding my way to the
gift shop to purchase myself a mug #smugface
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Ty Mawr Standing Stone,
Holyhead: August 2019
A month previously I had visited this site, a
stone's-throw from the burial chamber (see below), and I decided to come back to
have a closer look.
If one continues on the way past the Burial Chamber
you'll come to another, but unmarked, stone standing in a field.
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A date for the diary...
World Carfree Day
September 22nd
While most days for me is car-free, I do like to
make an effort to go out on my bike on these "official" days.
Click here for a previous event.
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Holyhead "Burial Chamber":
July 2019
Holyhead has a number of historical sites and on
this day I made a point of visiting the "Burial Chamber" called
Trefignath
for the first time. It is marked on the map below. It is a short distance from a
standing stone. There are further standing stones marked to the west, and
between these are a couple of "Cytiau'r Gwyddelod"/settlements (see
2020 above).
At the Trefignath there is an information
board and as soon as I looked at this, complete with its artist's impression of
the site, I found the actual site to be in a sorry state. It is made up of three
parts but the middle one is collapsed. How or when this came to be I do not
know.
This construction of stones is very similar to
Creevykeel, a "Court Cairn"/"Tomb" in Ireland which I discovered on my travels
earlier in the year. From the diagram copied from
Wikipedia, "Chamber 3" has a similar representation at Trefignath.
As one travels from Trearddur to Holyhead past the
Burial Chamber, you then see the Ty Mawr Standing Stone on the right, opposite
the Road King building. I had a nice view of it from here while I had breakfast;
below is pretty much how it looks a bit closer using Google StreetView.
The way it stands there reminds me of the stone
heads/moai on Easter Island, in this case it is looking to the right where the
"Burial Chamber" lies in the distance (although I don't think actually quite
visible from there) and with Holyhead Mountain at its back. I often imagine
standing stones, especially in circles, as people; I first had this impression
when I visited Calanais in 2016.
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Conwy Castle:
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Aber Falls, North Wales:
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Mynydd Bodafon, Anglesey:
An area I often visit, a previous documented occasion was in
2016.
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