The long #walk. Mile 15. Grrrr... Halfway and it's taken me 9 hours. Probably due to getting lost so much and finding so many flooded trails. I need to make up some time. Time to get serious about this #hike if I want to get home by 9PM.
The long #walk. Mile 10. Got lost again and didn't realize it until I'd done a lot of climbing. Free exercise! Also had to double back a lot because marked trails were under water. The picture with the geese? The map says there's a trail there. But it's all good because that meant I got to go off-trail and walk through fields of flowers.
The long #walk. Starting out 30 minutes before sunrise. Waking the Shirland Canal, looking down the mountain at the river. I can hear the rapids, it sounds like a freeway. It'll take me an hour to get to the rapids... And that's where the real #hike starts.
Right. Been a while since I did a lengthy walk thread, so here's yesterday's mooch on the moor, where I tried to visit as many of the archeoglcal sites as I could
8 miles
Fernworthy to Grey Wethers, via Assycombe.
First up, and only a short 30 minute trek from the reservoir edge, is the very pretty, Assycombe Stone Row.
It's nestled in a clearing, in the middle of the Fernworthy forest plantation, and feels like coming across a spot of magic.
It's probably Bronze age, although never been properly dated. And I sit to have my peanut butter sandwich at the monolith head looking down on the Combe.
In my neighborhood there are a number of what I assume to be old corner stores converted into apartments. I saw this last week and I just found the door really striking. I never noticed the paint on the top of the columns made to look like plants. Such a nice small detail!
I haven't been to #Berching for over 35 years. But now I finally made a #trip there and went for a little #walk. Today I somehow felt like taking a #nostalgic trip into the past.