a walk in the mountains, part two

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

After all that busy climbing, we drove a few miles further into the mountains to the Mountain Centre for lunch at the little café there. This is the view of Pen-y-Fan from outside the café. At 886 metres (2,907 ft) above sea-level, it is the highest peak in Britain south of Snowdonia.


And then we went for a walk up Mynydd Illtud. This is the view of Pen-y-Fan from the lower part of the common. Of course, we'd no sooner started walking than it started to hail, which you can see in these pictures.



The clouds could be seen rolling down and sitting atop some of the peaks in the distance.



Little Ruby had been enjoying herself enormously up to this point – wide open spaces to run around, ice cold water to wade through and drink, sheep and rabbit droppings to sniff, a dead shrew to nibble on; it was the most exciting day she'd ever had. But she found the hail rather too scary to cope with and had to be picked up and carried until it stopped.


Long shot and close up of Pen-y-Fan again.



A dinky little pond we passed.


Here are a bunch more random pictures of various mountains either bathed in sunlight or swathed in cloud.










Big Sis and Small trying their hand at sheep-rustling.


Eventually, that low-lying cloud hit Pen-y-Fan as well.


Sun breaking through the cloud.

Comments

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I couldn't say for sure, as I haven't been up there since this day, but I doubt there is snow on the mountain at the moment - the bulk of it had melted by the end of the day I was there, and that was over a month ago now. So I'm guessing it is all gone by now. The cloud formations were amazing that day.

[smirra.livejournal.com]

the bulk of it had melted by the end of the day I was there
Oh I meant if there is some snow on the pictures (maybe a bit blind-me)- so you say there was, that day. I wasn't sure from the photos if it was snow or the rock on top of it. Beautiful impressive shots all over.