My walk along the Wye Valley Way and the Snowdonia Slate Trail in Wales.
I’m at it again, rambling all over the landscape of the British Isles. This time I’m all in for 220+ miles in Wales, a walking location I love dearly, as longtime readers of this blog will know from my account of hiking the Offa’s Dyke Way.
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Day 20: Mind the gaps
And so we arrive at the final day on the Snowdonia Slate Trail, and the last blog post until my next adventure. The trail ends with an 11-mile day, much of it on dirt or gravel or paved roads (mostly so minor that traffic is not a concern), without much elevation gain and a lot…
Day 19: Forgetting while you go
I’ve reached the stage in my ramble at which the days start to blur together, even while they are happening. Halfway through today’s hike, I was struggling to remember whether a particular bit of trail had been this morning or yesterday. My brain can only take in so much new walking sensory data before it…
Day 18: You have to hike your hike
After yesterday’s short but somehow very long wet hike, we spent dinner reassuring each other that we had done the right thing to do a little walking. As my other sister Karen noted in the comments, two miles might have been sufficient, if only there had been a workable two-mile segment. Oh well. I’d read…
Day 17: I’m in pain and I’m wet and I’m still hysterical
It was a simple plan. Walk 14.5 miles, rain or shine, and get through one of the two longest-distance days of the trail. Plans, as they say, change. We’d had a very nice evening. Our hotel proprietress had very kindly let us in at 3pm, the time our travel company said the rooms would be…
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