Day 41 – wild

Hay on Wye to Pandy. 17.99 miles, 2.972ft of elevation, 37,006 steps

After a lovely breakfast at the Kilvert pub in Hay, we set off up in to the Black mountains. We discovered at breakfast that the guidebook said it was another one of those ‘don’t underestimate the remoteness of today’s walk’. So we checked the weather – light showers and gentle breeze. Sounded perfect. And when we set off , it was.

However, when we started to gain height and get up in to the clouds the weather got wet, cold and very windy. So much so that the hat had to make its first appearance.

Not long after, and as we carried on climbing, the poles went away, hands were tucked up inside the jacket and it started to get properly bleak

Once we got the height (703 metres – the highest point of the entire Offa’s Dyke), the route flattened off and we then walked the ridge for a good ten miles.

As we dropped back down again and we got below the clouds we got glimpse of what we would have seen on a clear day. It would have been a spectacular walk, in the end it was a wild wind blasting walk and equally enjoyable – and the tea tasted much better afterwards.

The weather made for a quick walk and we were done not much after 3pm, this despite Chris failing to find the B&B for a good half an hour. There is not much at Pandy and the Pandy Inn was not exactly rocking on this October Monday night. So early night for us!! Yipee