Winter Weekends

Hi folks,

I'm just going to post a few photographs to show you where I've been over the last couple of weekends.  I'm still doing agility training so that now involves a tunnel, jumps, an 'A' frame and a see-saw.  I really enjoy even when my humans confuse me with the wrong commands, I will just have to keep working on them .

Last weekend I went to a huge beach and was able to run around, splash and chase things that were blowing in the wind.  Wow it was so windy and there was lots of water to splash in although it was very, very cold.  Today I went to The Roaches in Staffordshire for a short walk and bagged another peak.  I tried a bit of bouldering, this was great fun as the rock is really grippy for climbing. As you can see from the photo I encountered snow 

again, there wasn't much on the ridge but there was quite a lot of ice.  It was an easy ascent to the top of the hill (The Roaches - 505 metres) with only 164 metres of climbing 

Hen Cloud (410m)

and great views from the ridge for the whole walk.  The whole walk from the roadside car park is only 5.4 km so it was an easy scamper for me.

The Roaches (windy)

The final photos show the views from the ridge over Staffordshire and even though it was an overcast day the exciting thing for me was that I could see the hills of North Wales to the west.

Wags and woofs,

Dexter.

Trad jazz

I am going to my first jazz gig at the weekend, watch this space and I'll tell you all about it....

A great night out at the Caledonia pub, live music and lots of people made a fuss of me.  I got home very late and then had to be at Agility Training by 9 o'clock the next morning.  I was very tired by the time I got home on Saturday morning but it was worth it.  

The agility is going well but I sometimes have problems with one of my humans who seems to get very confused, very easily.  But I'll keep working at training the humans.

Woofs and wags, Dexter.

Winter walk - Bryniau Clwyd.

I took advantage of the dry and sunny weather today to head up to the Bryniau Clwyd (Clwydian Hills) again for a short walk. The weather was great with views extending from the Berwyn range to the south, taking in the Arans, Cadair Idris, Arenigs, Snowdon Horseshoe Carneddau and Glyders.  All looking fantastic with a covering of snow or frost on the mountains.   

Distant (hazy) view of Snowdonia.

First summit on the walk was Penycloddiau, a start through the woods meant I could run off the lead before we got to the area with sheep and then it was back on the lead for the final trek up to the summit.

Looking south to Moel Arthur

Overlooking the Vale of Clwyd

A quick break for a snack at the top of Penycloddiau before heading down again and on towards Moel Arthur.

Moel Arthur in the distance and I'm wondering why humans are such slow walkers!

The descent from Penycloddiau back to the car-park is very easy and in no-time at all (despite a slow human) I was heading up the slope to Moel Arthur, another of the Clwydian hill-forts. There was still some ice on the slope but not too much and the climb was an easy scamper for me to the summit which was my third named summit at 456m.

Wow - bagged another summit!  Moel Arthur.

I had another snack having found a nice sheltered bit of hillside with brilliant views to the south, west and north, and enjoyed some quiet time with my human. After a while we headed back to the car-park, all downhill and easy now that the ice had melted.

Offa's Dyke Path on Moel Arthur looking north towards Penycloddiau

Overall the walk today covered 6.43 km with a height gain of 285 m, the weather was 2 C with a 10km/h SSE breeze.

Woofs and wags, Dexter.