Misty Mountain Tops

Usually I walk up over there . Quads and bikes have made the track almost impassable .

Valley floor .Northeast towards the Rhigos Mountain .

Mynydd Caerau Cairns

Three aligned round cairns close to the top of Mynydd Caerau , Garw Valley .

Mynydd Caerau Round Cairns

Three round cairns (SS890942) in different stages of disrepair  near the top of Mynydd Caerau , Garw Valley . Four more Cairns  are on the summit north of the site  .

The East Cairn reduced to a small mound .

                                                     

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Cairns are aligned east west or west east . Depends where you're standing    

Middle Cairn , vandalised what's left is used as a sheep shelter .

  

West Cairn .

 Beacons in the distance  . 

Nice up here .

Carn Mynydd Blaengwynfi

Carn Mynydd Blaengwynfi

A few weeks ago during a cold spell. I braved the freezing conditions .Got the mountain bike out of the shed for another Cairn quest  . Mynydd Blaengwynfi (grid ref SS90659737)  

Cairn of unknown origin .OS Trig Point on the top .

 Grass covered  mound  . Large stones on

 the surface .

BIG BLACK .

Mynydd Caerau

'Spent the afternoon in the hills among the ancients'

Near the summit of Mynydd Caerau .

Mynydd Maendy

Mynydd Maendy from other side of valley . Iron age hill fort above the forestry  .

 Graig Fach and Graig Fawr  basin shaped landscape on the horizon the result of glacial activity during the last ice age ..