{"id":11926,"date":"2023-03-19T21:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2023-03-19T21:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:45:05","slug":"drws-y-coed-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/drws-y-coed-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Drws-y-Coed II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Harbour at Porthmadog<\/a>. Porthmadog rapidly developed during the 19th C for exporting slate. Its importance as a port dwindled over the 20th C with the decline of the Welsh slate industry<\/a>. Now the marina is used for leisure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Locomotive Gelert<\/a> at in the exhibition hall of the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway (based at Porthmadog). The WHHR is easily confused with the Welsh Highland Railway, which also operates from Porthmadog. The WHR<\/a> is a much bigger affair, but its focus on tours meant that we failed to travel on it, despite Rhyd Ddu station<\/a> being just at the head of the Nanttle valley. Being a much shorter affair (less than 1 mile), the WHHR<\/a> was much more accommodating, and arguably more interesting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(Top left) Evening sun back at the cottage. (Right) Looking north over the cottage to the crags of Craig Y Bera (the peak, Mynydd Mawr<\/a>, literally Big Mountain, 698 m, is behind). (Bottom) A reminder of the long history of mining.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We worked up to tackling the Nanttle Ridge<\/a>, a well-known route, but with some definite tricky bits. The ascent to Y Garn<\/a> (633 m) from just outside Rhyd Ddu was straightforward. (Top left) The next stretch to Mynydd Drws-y-Coed<\/a> was the hairiest, with some scrambling and careful choice of foot\/hand-holds needed. Some of us bypassed the peak of Trum Y Ddysgl<\/a>, before following a long grassy ridge (bottom left) to the Victoria monument on Mynydd Tal-y-Mignedd<\/a>. The Nanttle ridge continues, but the lack of public transport made a round trip impractical, so we backtracked and headed south off the ridge, with views over towards Snowdown (bottom right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A wet day was the obvious occasion to visit the Sygun copper mine<\/a>. The visitor centre had a surprisingly large and interesting museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,10],"tags":[27,40,162,91,95,154,147],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-places","category-uk","tag-harbour","tag-industry","tag-minerals","tag-mountains","tag-rocks","tag-steam-engines","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}