Distance: 20 miles
Ascent: 950m
Weather: bright, bit windy
Critters: at least two deer, curlews, oystercatchers, lapwings, skylarks
The day began with a (relatively) hearty breakfast, with lots of cups of tea as I did the exercises prescribed by my physiotherapist for my frozen shoulder. With exactly two weeks before we set off for Offa's Dyke, I'm hoping that these will help to increase mobility and reduce the pain of sudden movements and stile climbing. We'll see.
So we set off today for a reasonably modest walk, which seemed to get longer as it went along, ending up at a rather unexpected twenty plus miles.
We went through Strinesdale, where I missed a duck photo opportunity due to some camera strap faffing, and then almost missed a couple of deer running away behind us across the path, I saw the second one briefly. About five minutes later we stopped for a snack - after having spent about ten minutes discussing how hungry we both were - and during the handing out of some nuts and raisins, I spotted a deer on the hillside opposite, which obligingly posed to have its picture taken.
From the reservoir we went up to Bishops Park and down the lane into Delph, then up a really steep cobbled path to a lane which leads towards Castleshaw. Here we met an odd fellow who was very proud of living ina field with no gas or electric, and then nearly got run into a wall by a group of ramblers walking in the opposite direction. From the top of the hill, we followed the Pennine Bridleway to Piethorne Reservoir and then a very wet path over to Brushes Clough. Here we should probably have taken the more direct route home, but decided instead to go to the aerials and over the ridge to Ripponden Road and home via Co-Op for dinner supplies.
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Ascent: 950m
Weather: bright, bit windy
Critters: at least two deer, curlews, oystercatchers, lapwings, skylarks
The day began with a (relatively) hearty breakfast, with lots of cups of tea as I did the exercises prescribed by my physiotherapist for my frozen shoulder. With exactly two weeks before we set off for Offa's Dyke, I'm hoping that these will help to increase mobility and reduce the pain of sudden movements and stile climbing. We'll see.
So we set off today for a reasonably modest walk, which seemed to get longer as it went along, ending up at a rather unexpected twenty plus miles.
We went through Strinesdale, where I missed a duck photo opportunity due to some camera strap faffing, and then almost missed a couple of deer running away behind us across the path, I saw the second one briefly. About five minutes later we stopped for a snack - after having spent about ten minutes discussing how hungry we both were - and during the handing out of some nuts and raisins, I spotted a deer on the hillside opposite, which obligingly posed to have its picture taken.
From the reservoir we went up to Bishops Park and down the lane into Delph, then up a really steep cobbled path to a lane which leads towards Castleshaw. Here we met an odd fellow who was very proud of living ina field with no gas or electric, and then nearly got run into a wall by a group of ramblers walking in the opposite direction. From the top of the hill, we followed the Pennine Bridleway to Piethorne Reservoir and then a very wet path over to Brushes Clough. Here we should probably have taken the more direct route home, but decided instead to go to the aerials and over the ridge to Ripponden Road and home via Co-Op for dinner supplies.
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