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when the wife was heading away to Visit her Brother she asked me to see her off to Llandudno Junction train station, I then Consulted
http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/EWRegions/MarilynRegions.php?qu=Hu&gp=M30Cand found that Great Orme, Criegiau Rhiwledyn, Bryn Evryn, and Bryn Pydew, were close and small enough to be included in together in a day.
I started from Llandudno train station and I headed up to the Great Orme, Now let me explain here this hill, the Llandudno council does not want people not climbing this hill, there is a road right up to the Summit, Arriva Wales does a Bus service to the Café on the Summit, there's a tram (you even have to change stations when you reach the summit plateau) and you can drive or walk it.
I headed up the tram tracks (Llandudno is off season right now so no tram service)
and it was very steep I found myself gaining a lot of height very fast
- Great Orme from Llandudno shore
- Steep tram tracks
- this shot does gradient justice
now once on Great orme Summit there's no shortage of things to do, there's a café, shops, play park, dry ski slope, and 18 holes of Crazy Golf!!!
so I took the rest of the road up and avoided the buses and cars and headed to get a little something to eat and it was a little crazy to just nip into a shop on the top of a hill
- SHOP!!!!
I took pics on the Summit and got out of there!!!
- looking across to Conwy
- looking to second HuMP of the day Criegiau Rhiwledyn at the other end of Llandudno bay
- Llandudno bay with Criegiau Rhiwledyn
- Me on Great Orme
after Great Orme I descended along the tram tracks to Llandudno bay to walk it's Length to the Second HuMP of the day Criegiau Rhiwledyn
- Criegiau Rhiwledyn from Llandudno bay
wasn't sure of the route up this one so I kinda just went for it from the west.
- Criegiau Rhiwledyns west side
was pretty easy as it's only 141m so very quickly the Cairn was spotted and pics were taken.
- Cairn Spotted
- Great Orme from Criegiau Rhiwledyn
- Looking to Penrhyn bay and the 3rd HuMP of the day Bryn Evryn.
so luckily I found a good path heading down and to the East spitting me back out at the B5115 which I would walk along until I hit Penrhyn bay
- Bryn Evryn Spotted from the streets of Penrhyn bay
it was a bit of a mission to find the start up this Hill as i knew I wanted to descend it on it's w side so if I had to waste time circling it to find a way up then i might have to cancel the 4th HuMP luckily I asked someone and they told me that there was a car park on the east side of the hill so I headed there
- start of the 3rd HuMP
the whole thing was nicely Sign posted!!
- nice
once again this only another 100 odd meter hill so the cairn was quickly spotted and more pics of the area were taken
- Cairn spotted
- Looking to Great Orme from Bryn Evryn Summit
- and looking to Criegiau Rhiwledyn
- Looking to HuMP number 4 Bryn Pydew
Luckily I found a good path heading back down to the western side of Rhos-on-sea and it even spat me out where I wanted to be which was on the western side of this hill as the next hill is a ways away and to not have to circle a large hill that was a bonus
next task was finding a way across a small river to the other side of the valley the roads and bridges are far and few between luckily I found these football pitches that covered most of the valley and I followed the pitches to the car park and then found a wee footbridge across the water getting my to the road on the other side of the valley and to the start of the new and last hill.
- Looking back to Rhos-on-sea and Bryn Evryn from the start of the Bryn Pydew ridge
- heading up trying to get onto Bryn pydew ridge
- on of the ridge now Summit should be marked by a mast beyond the trees
Summit spotted!
- Last HuMP summit Found!!
- looking down to Conwy from Bryn Pydew Summit. after a long day
headed down to Llandudno Junction as I was Pure dead from this 18K walk!!!!
thanks for reading
MacKenzie,