Route
| Walk Leader | Michelle |
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| Route | Holwick - Low Force - High Force circular, back to Holwick via Ore Carr and The Bands. |
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| Weather | Cold, cloudy start and warm, sunny finish. Cool breeze. |
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| Walkers | Michelle, Michael, Evelyn, Ron, Sandy |
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| Excuses | Carol - horse watching George B - sailing in Scotland Bernie - 'out of synch' Ashley - broken ankle repairing Beth - shopping Alyx - walking in Kielder with James
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| Comments |
Re-run of last year's walk that was rained off. Drumlins in the landscape. The Tees was very low - not much water in the falls. 'Heavy bags' filled with stones and gravel deposited along the way. New gates along the Tees path. Excellent lunch spot with great views of High Force. The only drawback was that there were lots of visitors taking photos of the falls. Boggy underfoot on the way back. Crossed lots of streams on stones. Lots of shooting butts, and dead rabbits in various stages of decomposition. Plenty of rabbit traps but no rabbits in them. There weren't many people apart from at lunchtime. Abundance of sheep statues - near the beginning, and towards the end a spectacular stile flanked by two stone sheep eating leaves on stone trees with grouse on top. The sheep looked like a walrus at first, until we drew closer. This was opposite Lord Strathmore's large hunting lodge. There was a vintage derelict motorbike and sidecar with an L-plate in the village. Saw lots of little violas and wood anemones. Had a drink in the pub garden afterwards, sitting in the warm sunshine. Ron and Sandy had nice biscotti. There was apparently no chef, but there was a knowledgeable landlord who was able to tell us all about the rabbit traps. Wildlife: mallards, gosander, dippers, grey wagtail, pied wagtail, various wagtails, lots of red grouse (including a pair), curlews, skylarks, friendly chaffinches at lunchtime, redshank, oyster catchers, buzzard, wheatear, swallows on the telephone wires, song thrush, pheasants. Rabbits - lots of live ones as well as the dead ones. Dead mole. Lots of little lambs. Curly cows - a big daddy with two little calves. Nice brown horse near the end.
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| Meal | ||||
The Lion and Lamb at Horsley |
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| Photo Gallery |
Holwick lambs |
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Evelyn on swinging bridge |
Low Force |
Stone sheep
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Sandy feeds the sheep
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High Force
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Lunch stop |
Gnarled tree |
By the Tees |
Above High Force |
Hunting lodge |
Crossing in Stile |
Negotiating the stile |
Ron and sheep |
Back to Holwick |
Vintage Motorcycle |
Final refreshments |
