Beautiful Nant Valley

A longer walk today up into another favourite place, the wonderful high Nant valley. The refuges are now shut and the trail very quiet, the roar of the torrent and the sound of Nutcrackers all there was to hear.
I suspect these are the cows from the high pasture, waiting patiently to be taken down to the low fields before the barns for winter. It was quite fascinating to see that the calves have wooden blocks fitted to their horns to shape them. 

On the very steep trail up and down we took the time to follow little foristeire tracks into these ancient woods made, I suspect, by those foraging champignons. The extra shows à first for me, the Scaly or Shingled Hedgehog mushroom, Sarcodon imbricatus, apparently very rare in the UK, apparently not so here.