NORTH BERWYN WAY.8-7-12.

I travelled to Llangollen with Glyno and Killy and we parked in the Market Street car park and there we met Julian.Leaving Killy's car there we drove to Corwen in JC's car and parked at the football/cricket club car park.Already very warm and the cloud dispersing we were walking by 9.15 a.m. Walking up to the A5 we stopped to take photo's of the Owain Glyndwr statue.

Walking now towards the river after half a mile we dropped down onto the disused Ruabon to Barmouth railway line.

A short distance away you get a good view of the A5/Corwen Bridge with the River Dee swollen after the recent heavy rains.

The disused railway line runs parallel to the River Dee.

A half mile walk and near where the Afon Alwen joins the Afon Dyfrdwy in Llangar Church.

The clouds had now disappeared and it was very hot and the flies were a real nuisance.1 mile further down the line we reached Cynwyd were we walked up to the B4401 and crossed it to pick up a lane near the Blue Lion which follows the Afon Trystion up to Cynwyd Forest.

Im not a big fan of walking through forests/wooded areas and today with the flies annoying us i was hating it.I stopped to apply Deet and got a piece of bracken to swot them away.We reached an open section were there was a slight breeze and the flies left us alone.Below the photo shows the twin topped Moel yr Henfaes.

Back into the trees and the flies were back to annoy us.We were walking at a fast pace and were quickly through this section and on to open ground again and gaining height we were getting a view to the mountain ranges further afield,although a murky view.

As we neared Moel Fferna and the climb up to it we saw the first of the few people we were to see on this 15 mile walk.

Summit photo.

Leaving the summit we headed down to the Moel Fferna Slate Quarry.

After a mooch around we left the quarry by the incline following the Nant y Pandy.The NBW stops short of the lower quarry before heading back up the fence near the Ceiriog Forest.Turning east we now headed for Vivod which is 2 miles away.

Numerous trees had been blown over and were covering the path which resulted in a few detours and we soon reached the last steep pull up to the summit of Vivod.Below,looking back to Moel Fferna.

From Vivod it was 3.5 miles back to Llangollen on good tracks.It started to cloud over and looking across to the Berwyns you could tell that rain was on its way so we didn't hang around and picked the pace up to try to beat the rain.Below,looking down on Llangollen.

We had walked exactly 15 miles by the time we had reached the car with a total ascent of 2,700 feet and it had taken us 6 hours,walking at an average of 3 MPH.Within 5 minutes of leaving the car park and heading back to Corwen to pick JC's car up the heavens opened up and its teemed down with rain,we had timed it to perfection.We stopped at the Berwyn Hotel for a beer where we talked to the locals who were rum characters.

MILES WALKED     311
ASCENT                   73,300
TOPS                        69.