Rodney's Pillar, Powys
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scene_againOn New Year’s eve we climbed up to Rodney’s Pillar, at 365 m the highest point in the Breidden Hills, which tower dramatically over the valley of the Severn (making a huge detour around the hills). Rodney’s Pillar is a major local landmark, and due to its particular...erm...shape, it is also the subject of local rude remarks.
I finally made it up there last summer, but forgot to take a photo of Rodney's impressive obelisk, so I pinched this summertime photo from the Ordnance Survey website.
The OH (and faithful mutt) and Rodney's Pillar again in mid-winter.
A couple of days ago there was heavy snow, but only above 200 m, so it was exciting to go from the grassy Severn valley, up through the green forest, to above the snow line. At the top, there were deep drifts of powdery snow to play in.
The final ascent of the east face (ahem)
This was the view from the summit in mid-summer:
(that's the OH's shapely knee in the bottom right, he was at the centre of this edited pic).
Yesterday it was even more Tolkien-ish to gaze from a snowy peak, across the green patchwork valley with its meandering silvery river, to a solid wall of snowy hills beyond, in the north and west - Snowdonia.
From Breidden Hill to Middletown Hill (I think) - pretty anyway
I finally made it up there last summer, but forgot to take a photo of Rodney's impressive obelisk, so I pinched this summertime photo from the Ordnance Survey website.
The OH (and faithful mutt) and Rodney's Pillar again in mid-winter.A couple of days ago there was heavy snow, but only above 200 m, so it was exciting to go from the grassy Severn valley, up through the green forest, to above the snow line. At the top, there were deep drifts of powdery snow to play in.
The final ascent of the east face (ahem)
This was the view from the summit in mid-summer:
(that's the OH's shapely knee in the bottom right, he was at the centre of this edited pic). Yesterday it was even more Tolkien-ish to gaze from a snowy peak, across the green patchwork valley with its meandering silvery river, to a solid wall of snowy hills beyond, in the north and west - Snowdonia.
From Breidden Hill to Middletown Hill (I think) - pretty anyway
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Date: 2010-01-01 05:42 pm (UTC)The Breidden Hills is where the Severn first changes direction, from flowing from south to north, it heads eastwards towards Shrewsbury, then turns to go south again, which must be your part. Fascinating geography.
Remembering our walk/climb to Rodney's Pillar last July, it struck me it would make a good post for scene_again - but silly me to have only taken one photo (of the OH and his knee) that time.
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:47 pm (UTC)And yes, we're right down near where the Severn joins the Bristol Channel, very different countryside!
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Date: 2010-01-06 07:01 pm (UTC)