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postman Jan 2, 2012 14:45:45
Replying to thesweetcheat

This one is a bit easier, it was one of two trips out.

First is back in February, when Eric and me went to find Cerrig Cynnant stone circle and nearby cairns and ring cairns. Not only was it further than I thought and took much longer to get there and cost more than I anticipated I couldn't find them, there was so many targets to go at but all I found was a cairn not on my map, then Eric's feet were wet and he was giving me a hard time so we gave up and left.

Second was my summer solstice trip to the Berwyns, Wellies are no good for long distance walking unless you like blisters, dying sheep making me upset, crappy weather, and I was dead dead knackered, but i'd do it all over again but with me boots on. But not Cerrig Cynnant I at least like to find what i'm looking for.

Uncomfortableness is only the prelude to comfort, which is all the sweeter for it.

T tiompan
tiompan Jan 2, 2012 15:13:23
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postman wrote:
Wellies are no good for long distance walking unless you like blisters, .
Not Le Chameau Postie .Get the good uns ,no blisters , they are even quite comfortble without socks ,and you will be able to walk anywhere within your physical limits , with the added advantage of no soaked boots which are very uncomforatble the following day and if frozen even worse .

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 2, 2012 17:30:23
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postman wrote:
Second was my summer solstice trip to the Berwyns, Wellies are no good for long distance walking unless you like blisters, dying sheep making me upset, crappy weather, and I was dead dead knackered, but i'd do it all over again but with me boots on. But not Cerrig Cynnant I at least like to find what i'm looking for.
Ah, the Berwyns. Definitely G/F's least comformtable trip of the year, fog, high wind, freezing rain, knee-deep bracken and peat bog. All for a summit cairn (Moel Fferna) and two 2,000 ft summits. If there'd been a view it might have been worth it, but I've never seen such a look of "I'm going to kill you" as I saw on the final stile below the Moel Fferna summit ridge.

"I can laugh about it now (but at the time it was terrible)".