Sun 25 Oct 2015
As I didn't take any photos, I'll have to use one from another time.
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My stone man 5 Nov 2012 |
After a brief lunch I decided to get out
and take just a stroll along Bleasdale estate road.
My
legs felt tired, sort of lazy – but I grew interested in identifying the large
variety of trees in their autumn colours. I almost turned back just before
reaching Hazelhurst Farm, but the view of the hills called, and instead I went
up the zig-zag to between the two tops and then made my way back over the top
grouse road.
On
the way down from the top track I spied a very thin but distinct path through
the bilberry and heather and followed it to see where it led. I found it made
directly towards my stone man – so evidently the cairn has become very popular
with the sheep! I returned to the track and further along saw a similar path and
that, too, led to the cairn. It’s amazing that in all the times I have walked
along the track I have never before noticed a path leading on to the fell top.
Maybe the heather has thinned.
I
continued down to the wall above the plantation which has had most of its trees
felled and instead of following the usual wider rather muddy track over on the
right I tried what appeared to be the original near the wall, but not directly
by it. It was a perfectly comfortable path all the way down to the gate on to
the estate road. Perhaps I had used this on my first walks there but gravitated
to the wider one later?
The
trip took from about two o'clock until four thirty back at the car and was most
enjoyable, with no fatigue setting in and no use of pills, though I did have a
bottle of Lucozade. Glad I did the round trip after all.
