Distance: 16.5 miles
Ascent: 800m
Weather: sunshine and showers
Peering at the sky: lots
Thunder: rumbly
Pipets, golden plover, buzzards, mallards
We were eager to to get off early due to the bad weather forecast for today, after a week of hot dry there were yellow weather warnings for rain, hail and thunder and lightning. Rob forgot his watch, so we went back, and then I realised I'd forgotten my Fitbit but didn't bother going back to get it.
We headed over Strinesdale and passed the Roebuck to go over Badger Lane to Ship Lane and down into Delph. Provisions were got at the Co Op, then we took a footpath over the fields passing Jacobs sheep up to Heights where we joined the Oldham Way. There was a brief shower but the sun was still shining. Along the path to the moors, the clouds began to look threatening and the wind got up. We saw meadow pipets and a golden plover flapping in a plovery way.
From the Pennine Way we took the pack horse track down into Marsden, stopping to add a hydration tablet to some water in an experimental effort to drink more water. The day was hot and humid, getting hotter and more humid after lunch when the thunder and lightning rumbled around us for a long while. We were walking along the canal, having decided to stay low for this very reason. It was very atmospheric. Quite literally.
The sun had come out again as we made our warm way through Slaithwaite and up Scapegoat Hill to the hotel. There was a pretty little footbridge that we had to cross to get over the canal, but I didn't get a picture of it as there was a dog owner trying to negotiate with her labrador to let go of its stick so it would fit through. Doggo was having none of it.
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