Hatterall Hill: 10th Anniversary Wendy Cronin Memorial Walks

This year's mountain walk revisited the Black Mountains, where Wendy and I stayed at the Capel y Fin youth hostel in 1988 (I think). This was our first attempt at the Offa's Dyke path. The next day the weather suddenly turned dreadfully wet - this was the middle of July! - and we got soaked to the skin coming down off Hay Bluff. We got to that night's B&B in Hay, a delightful little cottage full of second hand books, as you'd expect, to find everything in our packs was soaked too. So we decided to call off the long distance walk, and took bus and train back to Clevedon, where we'd left the car with Liz B. We spent the rest of that holiday being tourists in the Forest of Dean, and came back the following year to finish the Offa's Dyke path. The hostel doesn't exist any more, so this year we stayed at the bunk barn in Llanthony. And the day of the memorial 'walk' was very wet and windy, so instead of tramping up a sodden hill we pottered in the bookshops and teashops of Hay on Wye - all very Wendy! I did the mountain bit on my own on Sunday after everyone else but Angela had gone home, hence the photos of Llanthony Priory and the Hatterall Hill ridge (that's the Offa's Dyke path on the summit). The only group shot in this gallery is from the Hambleton walk the previous weekend: first family gathering on this scale for a few years - also very Wendy.