Day fifty five - Cefny Clawdd to Barmouth

 24th April.

Rain started at 6am after a dry and mostly clear starry night and the forecast said it would stay for the morning but after about an hour it stopped and stayed away all day.

Down, across the road, up the east side of Cader Idris and into the cloud. I met two people coming down, one from Keynsham and the other works at Westonbirt Arboretum.

There were a few clearances but the actual top was totally in the cloud. There is a very good shelter on the top that, I was told, was a café at one time. With a tough enough sleeping mat it would be a good place to spend the night although I was told that, if you do, you come down either mad or a poet!

Once out of the cloud the ridge walk is great and, of course, by the time I had gone a mile or so, the cloud cleared from the summit. 

Down to Barmouth across the railway / footbridge where I restocked before climbing up the road to a little campsite.

The views to sea and back to Cader Idris were amazing and the owner had lived in Pucklechurch at one time.

15 miles walked 1050 meters ascent.