Hill Hike #3 Moel Famau

This hill is likely to appear a lot in this training blog, it's the nearest to home, it has a lot of route options and extensions and the ascent can be anywhere between 400 and 1000m. As it's still early days I'd decided to walk the hill and the ridge only without the steep descent to Moel Arthur.

A Saturday 1 pm meet up with Warren and Ellie meant an easy start to the day - not that it helped. After about 500m I realised I'd left my phone on the car roof so the ashamed trudge back to the car to start all over again. Luckily for me Warren discovered he hadn't locked his car - so we agreed that nothing more would be said about either matter.

The hike back up tot the top after returning along the ridge

Having hiked to the end of the ridge we turned back - it was at this point we both realised that after 4 months off the hills we couldn't keep up our old pace. We called it a draw and had a far more breathless wander back along the ridge over the top and down to the cars. For the record there was no extra food for Ellie.

Distance  - 8 miles
Ascent - 853m
Time - 3hours 40mins

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