Aug 12
Climbed Caer Caradoc today hard mode (up the steep side) + then descended via an equally insane decision of taking sheep paths down as a "shortcut" (I thanked them at the bottom for all their great work maintaining these routes for the local ovine community ofc ofc) before I was subsequently beaten half-dead with bracken - on the human carved paths no less - as if I were in an enthusiastically aggressive Russian banya.
#this was after tons of rock scrambling already + 6 miles already under the belt in the heat#but caer caradoc was probably top 10 one of the most insane#hardest#+ fun hiking experience I have ever had + wld probably put my way of doing it as harder than the kaymoor miners trail in the new river gorg#the heat was brutal im even a little pink#such an amazing day though i will share photos when able but i saw wild ponies and horses and it was just an amazing place#carding mill valley#long mynd#caer caradoc#im battered#covered in wounds + such#but i wanted to be able to say i did it#Insert no ragrets meme here#exhausted#shropshire#uk#england#heatwave#surprise but sheep paths are made for things with four legs of which i only have two#wild right
