#offasdyketrail

Mining away a hillside outside Welshpool. The mountain is stripped to bare rock terraces. A processor pours out smoke? Steam?

Miles of embankments, sometimes guarded by trees. Photo shows a trail running straight down the top of an earth wall, surrounded by green plants and scrub trees.

A lock on the Montgomery Canal near Llanymynech. Towpath to the right, the canal itself glassy and still.

A panoramic shot from the top of Y Moelydd. 360° view of Wales and the borderlands. Green grass, a signpost, a monument.

Day Three on #offasdyketrail, Pool Quay to Trefonen. 16 miles, 2,400 feet elevation. The first nine miles, to Llanymynech, were gloriously flat and level, including the Montgomery Canal towpath in stretches. The next seven miles, not so much! Steep climbs to commanding views.

Black cattle forage in green brush on a backdrop of trees and distant hills.

A mysterious stone and an isolated group of trees, both out of place on Hergest Ridge.

Green pastures, cloud-shadowed and rolling up and down under a cloudy sky.

Distant hills.

Hay-on-Wye to Kington on #offasdyketrail. 15.7 miles on a warm day (eventually clear) first along the Wye River, then up a series of three ridgeline steps culminating in a pretty glorious Hergest Ridge, then a steep drop to Kington. Broad green paths on sunny flat ridge-tops, sheep and horses.