AWW Walk report – 11 SEPTEMBER 2024 –
Pine Forests and Baragems
We met at the café, which was closed for holidays and then drove 3kms further up the road for the start of the walk.
We headed up the cool shady path and Martin kept his jumper on. Out into the sunshine for the starter photo, not jumper now!
Then
it was round the winding paths, stopping along the way to water ourselves and
Toby dog.
At the 6-finger junction we took the path which lead down
into the valley.
Then it was through a couple of very dried up rivers.
Toby was sniffing to see where the water was in one of them.
Further along the path we joined the road for a 50metre
stretch of tarmac and came across the hand made sign for “Happy House”.
We left the tarmac stretch and back onto the dirt tracks,
stopping to admire the quaint little church.
Across a bridge over another dry river bed. Luckily, they had built a newer bridge to
replace the original pedestrian one.
Someone had decided the Happy House was now a “Happy Love House”. We wondered what this house would look like.
We admired the decorative cart before heading up out of the
valley.
We stopped in the shade by a baragem for some light snacks whilst Toby enjoyed a cool off in the water.
Then back up another hill and past another baragem which
looked similar to the other one, but no, we hadn’t gone round in circles.
The arrows the leader had laid down on the recci earlier in
the week were still almost intact so that gave everyone confidence as it was
starting to get quite warm. I did part
of this walk backwards way round so we had the shade of the pine trees later in
the morning. Hence the part recci and
the arrows.
We finished the walk before 1pm (as promised) 13.18kms in 3 ½
hours so quite a good pace.
Hope you enjoyed the inaugural walk, we did, and it was great to catch up with everyone. Thanks, Geoff & Martin for the photos, they gave me something to write about.
Linda, Russell and Toby dog.
It was hot and hard, albeit short, just me out of training! Lovely countyrside , well done Linda for a very apt inaugural walk. Shame we couldn't have stayed for lunch with you.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Linda. Nice walk though it was a bit too hot for my liking!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are SERIOUS about your walking!
ReplyDeleteHad a good time. Thanks to all.
Lovely blue skies by the looks of it. And water to be found, surprisingly. Well done surviving the heat.
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