A very enjoyable walk was had by 10 walkers with the CMS on the Hafod Estate on Saturday 26th September. Hafod looked at its best in the beautiful Autumn sunshine and we were able to explore the Pwllpeiran Falls and the Gorge Walk as well as seeing the improvements which the new custodians, the […]
A few days of intermittent drizzle have given way once again to hotter August weather, so we were glad to spend the return half of August’s walk meandering down the river in the Cammarch valley, and the dogs in the party took every opportunity to cool their pads in the water. The morning tramp up […]
Ten members of either ‘Aberystwyth Ramblers’ or CMS (or both) met up with walk leader Dave Taylor for a walk through Dyffrynnoedd Hengwm and Hyddgen, starting at Maesnant – a once-abandoned farmstead cum Field Center but now looking to be undergoing a major make over. Compared to the heat wave of previous days the weather […]
Sunday’s route round Llanwrthwl bore the title Brilliant Basics, which may have caused some to wonder what was in store. It refers to Welsh Government grant funding designed to enhance visitor experience and the local community. In this case it funded signage and gates along public rights of way around the village of Llanwrthwl. Most […]
Who could ask for a better Sunday walk in the Cambrians – a lovely Spring morning and the company of eight CMS members? Essentially it was a circuit around the Caban Coch Reservoir in an anti-clockwise direction, starting from the Elan Visitor Centre. The route passed the Nant y Gro dam (of WWII Dambusters fame) […]
Anyone who thought they understood the principles of conservation grazing – using livestock to maintain a habitat in a biodiverse form – had something to learn on our Celtic Rainforest walk on 28th March, courtesy of the RSPB’s Julia Harrison who is the lead for the LIFE project in the Cambrian Mountains. It seems […]
A lovely warm, hazy Spring day on the very edge of the Cambrians greeted the eight participants. This was a quiet, understated walk with a little bit of uphill, a short road section, some farm tracks, a brief foray through conifer plantation and a rougher (off-piste) stretch through Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea) along “the tops”. […]
Eleven members gathered at the end of the narrow, winding road from Ffair Rhos to Teifi Pools. Blue sky with some clouds to start the day . The plan was to follow the ‘other’ Monk’s Trod/Llwbyr y Mynaich as far as Llyn Cerrigllwydion Uchaf. Peter reports: “The track out had a number of ‘water splashes’ […]
May’s walk was meant to introduce some of us to better identification of the birds of the Cambrians, through learning to recognise their various sounds rather than trying, usually unsuccessfully, to get a good view. The best of intentions – in this instance, to remain hushed and concentrate on the twittering, fluting, cheeping and peeping […]
Eleven members (twelve if you include Jess the Border Collie) congregated at Nant yr Arian on a sunny Autumnal morning, all kitted up (well, they all had walking boots on, apart from Jess) ready to breach the ramparts of Dinas Iron Age Hillfort. In fact the majority of the twelve approached the top of the […]