Today we walked our final 11 miles from Tudweiliog to Aberdaron, the end of the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way. Although we didn’t walk the entire path, I’m feeling an incredible sense of accomplishment at achieving our goal. My parents and I walked every step between Rowen and Aberdaron, and we did it together — in … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 10 (Tudweiliog to Aberdaron)
Today’s walk was about 7 miles along gorgeous coastline. The day had about 875′ total ascent, which was mainly from dips in the path along the coast — there were a handful of spots where we dropped down to cross a stream coming out to the sea and then back up again. We decided to … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 9 (Nefyn to Tudweiliog)
We were a bit nervous about today’s walk, especially as we looked up at Yr Eifl and tried to imagine what the uphill portion would feel like. But today’s 10 miles felt shorter (we must be getting used to it!) and was a change of pace as we started our way down the coast of … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 8 (Clynnog Fawr to Nefyn)
Today’s walk was intentionally short, to recover from the long previous day. We started with the mile walk from our hostel back into Penygroes, with a stop at the Co-op for food supplies. Our food supplies may have included pastries. We needed some way to fill our time with such a short walk, right? So we … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 7 (Penygroes to Clynnog Fawr)
Today was quite a long day of walking! Officially it was 12 miles and 1780′ ascent, but we added 2 miles (one on each end between the path and hotel) and the ascent on our GPS said we went up more than that, too. We started by walking up out of Llanberis to the southwest, … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 6 (Llanberis to Penygroes)
Today was a planned day of rest — 5 days down, 5 to go. We stayed in Llanberis and did our best to relax and rest our feet. We managed a bit of a lakeside walk (and two geocaches), and after lunch we took the Snowdon Mountain Railway steam train up to the summit of … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 5 (Llanberis – rest day)
Today’s walk was mid-range, with only 7.5 miles on the path but plenty of ascents and a mile walk off the path to our hotel at the end of the day. We started the day in Tregarth and ended along Llyn Padarn in Llanberis. Soon after leaving Tregarth, we started up a hill through the … Continue reading Pilgrim’s Way: Day 4 (Tregarth to Llanberis)
