We feel fortunate to have such a wide variety of footpaths and walks on our doorstep, so easily accessible for our Wirral and North Wales based walkers. Throughout the year, our group enjoy every changing mood that each season brings to the countryside, as shown below in this section. 

May Reflections

With meteorological summer officially commencing in June, the last month of our spring walks saw the A group heading to Conwy Mountain, Foel Fenlli, Ponderosa and Llandegla Forest, and Little Orme. B walkers visited Chester and its environs, Llanarmon, Big Covert Wood and Maeshafn, and Parkgate. There was one C walk from Crosby to Hightown.

Thanks to organisers Jon and Gill, the highlight of the A+ calendar was the fifth annual three-day break we have enjoyed in North Yorkshire; this year based in the beautiful Wensleydale town of Hawes. Almost 30 miles (and over 3700 ft of ascent) of fabulous Dales countryside were covered, taking in the lower slopes of Gragareth to The Turbary Road and the Yordas Cave in Kingsdale, Dodd Fell and Drumaldrace, and Stag Fell, Hardraw, Shaw Gill Wood, and Sedbusk. The mostly sunny conditions meant our group were enthralled at every turn by the constantly changing scenery. The moorland and riverside birds seemed to be enjoying the weather too: a barn owl, golden plovers, curlews, lapwings, dippers, oyster catchers, wagtails, a great spotted woodpecker, grouse, sand martins, swifts, swallows, and skylarks were all observed to name but a few!

The pictures below show some of the scenes that impressed our many photographers this month- see if you can spot the sunrise over Moel Arthur and the Dryad’s Saddle!

If the evening be fine and warm, there is nothing better in life than to lounge before the inn door in the sunset, or to lean over the parapet of the bridge, to watch the weeds and the quick fishes… Your muscles are so agreeably slack, you feel so clean and so strong and so idle, that whether you move or sit still, whatever you do is done with pride and a kingly sort of pleasure.

Robert Louis Stevenson