Ascent: 900m
Weather: quite wet, cloudy
Wildlife: bit lacking today, we saw a bunny and a couple of squirrels, a slug, a beetle and a spider, plus meadow pippits.
The weather forecast for today had been for heavy rain all day, but really it wasn't as bad as we'd feared. The weather didn't spoil our day, although it would have been nice to have had more than just fleeting glimpses of the views as they are supposed to be really spectacular from Jubilee Tower on a clear day.
We retraced our steps back to the gate where we'd left the Offa's Dyke trail yesterday, the path through cow wood didn't seem too bad this morning, obviously the cows hadn't felt the weather was bad enough to take shelter under the trees.
It was raining lightly as we'd left the Inn and we'd put on our waterproofs straightaway, so it was quite warm in them as we climbed up the hill towards Moel Fenlli hillfort. The weather alternated between light rain, drizzle in the clouds and very short spells of almost no rain at all, and we kept our waterproofs on all day.
The path heads over a number of peaks, many of them with Iron Age hillforts on them. On Moel Famau (558m) we stopped by the Jubilee Tower (which had been lit as a beacon on the Queen's diamond Jubilee and was still wearing a strange looking cone attachment thing) briefly, and then headed over the other tops. The path was wide and clear, mostly grassy with some rocky sections coming downhill. We had first lunch on a bench near to a car park and second lunch later on underneath an oak tree by some sheep. I phoned the B&B to check their exact location and, with the thought of kettles being put on and tea being brewed, we made our way quickly through Aberchwiler village to Glan Clwyd Isa.
We are now in the Downing Arms in nearby Bodfari, we walked the mile or so as it wasn't raining, but brought our waterproofs with us for the return just in case.
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