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Be much easier than duin the usual tab to the top Bob, the Watkins track my personal favourite.

Couple of year back I took my two daughters up there Dave, to make it easy for them I took them up the Pyg Track and down via the Miners track. It was like the M1 Motorway people everywhere! I quite like the south ridge track, but it's not everybody's cup of tea. They said they enjoyed it, mind that was after they stuffed themselves at Pete's Eats with an all day breakfast!

Did you point out to them that after the ascent on Pyg track they became a pair of pygs Bob? 🤣 

Done all the tracks in mi time, some great jollys at Mawfa Neffin but liked the Watkins track cos o the river in the valley, beautytash mountain stream that dams deep enuff ta swim in. Nature at its best!

That's the two herbs struggling but determined, As you say grand scenery I never tire of it! 👍 

Looks good 

On the Watkins Track, a used ta run up the old rail line ta the left of the river that went up to the slate quarry n meet the "Trouble" az she bimbled up to Gladstone Rock. Deffo a thing of rhe past!

Love the hills Bob.

Had a long wait in the rain for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ZYZ9eilWY

well weth the wait Jack but wuz opin ta see Spewnak walkin the plank!

me too

Knowing our luck Jack, the bastard wud float! 😮 

There is something captivating watching those old sailing ships, sort of puts you in the mind of what it must have been like to sail the seas without the use of todays modern navigational aids. Just the stars and sexton and hoping you got your maths right when plotting a course. And what it must have been like clambering up the rigging during rough seas. That was sailing!

we have had a southerly breeze for days so relying on sail how did they make port.

That's where tacking comes in Jack where they have to sail across the wind and might have to travel 30 miles to gain 1 in the direction they want to go! That's where the saying "Sailing close to the wind" comes from as you try to sail as close to head on into the wind as you can without being blown backwards. (My 'expertise' coming from a few days spent on the local lough with a friend in his little 1950's plywood dinghy)!

There was a 70 odd year old bloke who recently rowed the Atlantic in a rowing boat, bollocks to that!