What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!

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Had a major poo

Pictures to follow

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but @Tilly was earlier admitted to Hospital - the poo alluded to earlier turned out to be the monstrous pile of shit that is the grinning-rainbow-unicorn-tecnological-Irish-border-solution turd seen above.

His dying wish was that the picture of the death-shit be posted on www.staffordforum.com to remember him by.

 

[tek-monkey]

It's been an amazing weekend. I've climbed cader idris and snowdon, visited a Welsh version of angkor wat and done a few more hikes as well. Pics will follow tomorrow evening, tonight I eat and drink cider!

 

[basil]

Bloody stocktaking time.....

 

[Gramaisc]

I thought they were Party 7s on the bottom shelf..

 

[basil]

I thought they were Party 7s on the bottom shelf..

If one is painting one's fence.....

 

[industryarch]

For the youth of today

 

[Noah]

A vessel very reminiscent of the Ark depicted on that can

 

[Boatbuilder]

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Bloody stocktaking time.....

I thought this was @Carole just in case we run out stockpile.

 

[tek-monkey]

It's been an amazing weekend. I've climbed cader idris and snowdon, visited a Welsh version of angkor wat and done a few more hikes as well. Pics will follow tomorrow evening, tonight I eat and drink cider!

I haven't forgotten, just been busy!

 

[Thehooperman]

I haven't forgotten, just been busy!

Come on, stop teasing. We're all waiting with baited breath here.

 

[Trumpet]

Trees were in blossom at the cabin this weekend

And a few brave souls risking the waters in Benllech Bay

 

[tek-monkey]

Come on, stop teasing. We're all waiting with baited breath here.

OK then, gonna take a while though as only 3 pics per post! First up, Friday morning we took a wander into Fairbourne along the sea defences to get some supplies. Probably about 5 miles all in.

 

[tek-monkey]

Then after a spot of lunch we took a wander up Cader Idris.

You can just see the Barmouth bridge in the distance.

 

[tek-monkey]

After a rather interesting night descent over scree we decided to have a rest day on the Saturday, so visited some castle ruins in the morning. I mainly used the other camera there and haven't sorted the photos yet, so here's a few from the phone:

 

[tek-monkey]

We followed that by a visit to Dolgellau to visit the wonderful TH Roberts, plus a quick hit on a charity shop for some shorts for my companion who was feeling the heat at this point. We then headed up to Coed y Brenin for a wander about.

 

[tek-monkey]

The next morning we headed for Snowdon, it was around this point I realised I'm getting better at taking pictures from moving vehicles:

 

[tek-monkey]

So on to Snowdon we went, again I mainly used the other camera here so shots were limited. I also started to notice looking back that I have an obsession with water as most pics were lakes not peaks! Went up the pyg and down the miners path.

 

[tek-monkey]

As we were a fair distance from the caravan and it was Easter Sunday we decided to spend a bit more time up that way before heading to the cross foxes for our evening meal (we did snowdon on a small sandwich and a chocolate bar each). After looking around the area we settled on an abandoned quarry, this one will be hard to narrow down as I took a lot of pics!

 

[tek-monkey]

Which brings us to Monday, where again I was mainly on the other camera. We headed to Dolgoch Falls, and went for a splore uphill (if a fence doesn't have barbed wire it is only advisory! Although we did ignore a lot of barbed wire too ):

 

[tek-monkey]

Hard to gauge total distance travelled, my watch says about 75km but my stride length was much shorter on steep inclines so I'd say a fair bit lower. I GPS tracked over 40km in 3 days, and that was only counting the two mountains, coed y brenin and the quarry, so I suspect at least 65km in total. I also GPS tracked over 6km of ascent so not too shabby for someone who this time last year only got exercise by cycling a mile each way to work. All in all a very good weekend, both in terms of what I saw and what I physically achieved