{"id":21443,"date":"2016-03-29T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21443"},"modified":"2016-03-29T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:49:33","slug":"winter-returns-moel-y-garn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/winter-returns-moel-y-garn\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Returns – Moel y Garn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the forecast was correct. After what was a lovely day on Good Friday<\/a>, Saturday was a washout, a very windy washout as well. I still wasn’t feeling like a triathlete, but decided that I should probably go for a run or at least a walk up a hill. Anna and Morgan wanted to go into Aberystwyth so whilst they were out shopping I drove in Tre Ddol and headed off on a mission to finally find the geocache on top of Moel y Garn.<\/p>\n

I did try to get to it a couple of weeks ago but a sudden snowstorm drove me off the hills. Today, it was the wind and rain that I would have to contend with. I ran up through Cwm Clettwr and out onto the top, following various footpaths through the woodlands and across fields. I then headed up onto one of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcExplore Dfyi’ tracks out onto track on the northern side of Moel y Garn.<\/p>\n

My running was terrible, slow and sluggish but I did have the excuse of going up a fairly substantial hill and into a howling gale. Once I was directly north of the summit of Moel y Garn I left the track and headed off across country towards the summit. The steep slopes, the driving rain and my general lack of oomph had me walking at this stage. I made it to the top though where I was greeting by ridiculously strong winds that had me down on all fours. I tired to stand up a few times but simply couldn’t as I would just get blown over within seconds. There was nothing for it but to crawl around on all fours looking for the Moel y Garn geocache<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moel y Garn<\/h2>\n\n\t\t