Ascent: 700m
Weather: misty start, getting sunny
Wheatears and robins.
Weasel Stoat Mammal Type Thing: 1
Detours due to paths on fire: 1
Total distance: 61 miles
It was misty but dry as we set off this morning. We didn't go back along the canal this time but headed up on to a hilly path on the other side of the road which was very pleasant and led up on to the moors. There were lots of robins along here, trees planted by the Colne Valley Tree Society and some nice stone benches with a memorial carved into them. The path (the Colne Valley Circular) comes out near Butterley Reservoir, and we walked along the dam wall rather than taking the energetic option of walking down and back up again. We saw a sheep in a playground, looking quite happy, and some sheep in a garden, looking a bit more sheepish.
Up onto the moors, it was quite windy, and we took a path not much trodden along towards Redbrook Reservoir and then along Thieves Clough Bridge towards the Pennine Way. We turned off immediately onto the Pennine Bridleway and down into Diggle, seeing a wheatear and some sheep that were unwilling to have their photo taken. We stopped for a pot of tea at the Diggle Hotel and changed our plans slightly to avoid walking along the canal, which we decided would be heaving today. Instead we decided to walk up Harrop Edge, although this was firstly stopped by the path not being there and secondly stopped by the path being on fire.
The lane further on was available and we took this up to Lark Hill, then down into Uppermill and followed the lane up over Hill Top Lane and on to Bishop's Park and the Medlock Valley Way down to Roebuck Lane, where we saw what was probably a stoat.
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