Llangollen

Llangollen (and Velvet Hill) on a Bank Holiday Monday. Yes, the camp sites were jam packed.

Llangollen elevation

Llangollen route

Very bright sun and quite hot all day. Luckily there were some puffy, white clouds to make the skies more interesting.

Sheep grazing in the sunshine

Perfect blue skies over the bracken on Velvet Hill

Castell Dinas Bran in the distance

Panorama from Velvet Hill

Big skies over the valleys and Llantysillio mountains

Panorama of the valleys and Llantysillio mountains

Hot, tired feet

Llangollen

A slight variation on the usual Llangollen route. There is another route nearby that goes around and over Velvet Hill. There is a small track that goes between the two, past Valle Crucis Abbey, so we lumped in the hill as an optional extra, to bulk it up to more of a full day's walk.

Llangollen elevation

Llangollen route

Very sunny day but extremely windy on the hills.

Bracken on Velvet Hill

View from the southern end of Velvet Hill

View from the north end of Velvet Hill

Gill holding on to her hat in Castell Dinas Bran 

Castell Dinas Bran ruins

Castell Dinas Bran ruins

Castell Dinas Bran ruins

View from the Castell

Panorama from the Castell, with the Eglwyseg Rocks to the east, possibly Llantysilio mountains to the west

Llangollen

A return to Llangollen after 3 years. Starting early we took in a walk past the old Abbey, and round the Panorama Walk to Castell Dinas Bran. As we finished this just after lunch we decided to do another short walk, just up the road past the Horseshoe Falls and along the Velvet Hill.
Very sunny, very humid and we were very tired by the end of it all.

Llangollen Routes

Llangollen elevation

Llangollen Canal

Weeds in the crystal clear canal (how often are those words heard together?)

View from the Castell toward Panorama Walk and Eglywseg Rocks

Looking west through the ruined walls

Gill in an archway

Spot the Gill competition

Castell Dinas Bran

Crow statue on the gate to the "Castle of the City of Crows"

Horseshoe Falls

View of the west side of Velvet Hill

Small Copper

Gatekeeper

View from the centre of Velvet Hill facing north

Panorama from the southern end of Velvet Hill facing west (click for bigger)