Yesterday I met my friends in Dolgarrog and we were going to do the Ardda walk that we last did in 2014. We were going to do it the easy way, leaving one car in Dolgarrog and taking the other up to the Ardda for the start of the walk. At the Ardda we got our gear out of Tellytubby's car and set off on the walk but we had only walked about 100 yards when I realized that there may be a problem when we got to my car in Dolgarrog. I had left my trainers in Tellytubby's car and had to go back for them as I didn't fancy driving up the steep and narrow lane in my size 11 walking boots!
Anyway with a pair of trainers sticking out of my rucsack we set off on the walk. On a good clear day the views from this elevated location are breathtaking but yesterday a haze hung over the mountains and the Conwy Valley so visibility was poor. It wasn't far to Ardda Chapel, this little chapel was built in 1845 and today is a ruin surrounded by a small graveyard. I had a look at the headstones which were all inscribed in Welsh and one particular one stood out as the boy died at the age of just four months.
We carried on following the leet and across the valley we took a path that was to take us under the pipeline to Dolgarrog. We had hoped that the Bluebells would have been out but although there were signs of them there, we were probably about two weeks too early to see them out and in their masses. At the pipeline we stopped and had our drinks and food before continuing along the path, turning right before the Coedty reservoir and crossing the river. The public footpath took us down a steep slope towards Dolgarrog and we followed the path alongside the river and had a good view of Surf Snowdonia from the path. When we got to the bottom of the path we got into my car to go back to Ardda and pick up Tellytubby's car there. We finished up with a nice coffee in Surf Snowdonia and it was good to see so many people there enjoying themselves
