A busy few days.

I've had a really great few days involving mountains, running and a brand new activity  - cycling.

My human has always promised to take to the top of the highest mountain in England and Wales so on Thursday we headed into Wales to climb Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) which is 1085 metres high.  The weather forecast wasn't too good with rain forecast but soon after 09:45 we started the walk from Pen-y-Pass using the Pyg Track, this is an easy route even for humans as the walk starts from over 350 metres.  Before we headed into the cloud there was a chance for one photo looking towards Llanberis but by the time we got to 500 metres we were in the cloud with no views.

That really set the theme for most of the day and as we got towards the top of the zig-zags at Bwlch Glas there was strong wind and rain.  The first peak was Crib-y-Ddysgl which at 1065 metres is the second highest of the Welsh peaks, the view was non-existent and you can see from the photograph how wet it was.  So we didn't linger here!

My first Welsh 1000m peak.

From here it's an easy walk to Yr Wyddfa and the whole ascent only took just under two hours.  This summit was no place to linger, by this stage there no sign of the cloud lifting so just a quick pause for a photo with my humans and then a walk down the mountain by 

Yr Wyddfa - my second Welsh 1000m peak.
Very wet!

the Llanberis Path.  Once we got below the clouds the weather was fine and sunny and it was a very easy walk for me.  In total the walk was about 14.5 km with 787 metres of climbing so not very tough on the paws.

Friday was a rest-day for me (although I think that might have been for benefit of my human) followed by an 8k run on the Sandstone Trail on Saturday.  This was mainly in the woods and very soft on the paws with a steep uphill bits mixed in with fast downhill scampers.



Now here's the new activity.  As I'm now running easily and quite fast (I could go faster but I don't want to damage my human!) I was told I could go cycling, this was very confusing, how would I reach the pedals?   So on Sunday off I went to Delamere Forest to find out what this was all about.  It turned out that all I had to do was run alongside the bike not ride it.  Wow, this was fun, I ran with my human; sometimes ahead of the bike and sometimes behind.  We went up hills and down hills, through gloopy mud and even through a stream.  Because I'm used to running and listening for the safety commands I didn't get tangled up in the bike, this was the first cycling adventure so we didn't go very fast but I'm already looking forward to the next run out with the bike.




 Wags and woofs, Dexter.

Moel Emoel

Back in September 2014 I went for a walk to the top of Moel Emoel so it was great to get back onto the hill in lovely sunny weather on 8th August.  It's an easy walk and a great chance to run around on the parts of the hill with no sheep (my human keeps me on a lead if there are any sheep or cattle around).  The route opens up with great views in all directions.  There's not much else to say, it was lovely for a young terrier to be on the hills again.

 ...watch out for my next adventure...

wags and woofs, Dexter