Two short walks
Aug. 17th, 2009 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustJust for my own reference, so that when I want to know when we last went to a certain place, or where we have walked in the last year (it does happen), I will be able to find out.
Back at the beginning of the month, we overnighted after a dinner party with S, and took her walking in the grounds of Cragside. A hot heavy day, after a pariod of rain, so we seemed to spend all our time picking our way through muddy woodland paths, screened from the view and stifling. We can't have walked far at all, though the route twisted so that I really can't be sure. Conclusion: save this one for June, when the rhododendrons are in bloom.
Yesterday, wondering how purple the heather would be on the moors, we devised a walk around the Smiddy Shaw and Waskerley reservoirs. The answer was that the purple was good, but not at its peak and it was also extremely grey. The forecast was for overcast skies, and drizzle in the Lake District, but I think they were confused about which side of the North Pennines was which, but the grey grew gradually wetter and wetter, so when we climbed out onto the railway walk, instead of walking on to Waskerley reservoir, we walked the other way, back to the 'station' where we'd left the car. We drove round to the reservoir and picnicked at the picnic site, but in the car, and then, since it didn't seem to be clearing, came home. Conclusion: a promising route, worth trying again.
Back at the beginning of the month, we overnighted after a dinner party with S, and took her walking in the grounds of Cragside. A hot heavy day, after a pariod of rain, so we seemed to spend all our time picking our way through muddy woodland paths, screened from the view and stifling. We can't have walked far at all, though the route twisted so that I really can't be sure. Conclusion: save this one for June, when the rhododendrons are in bloom.
Yesterday, wondering how purple the heather would be on the moors, we devised a walk around the Smiddy Shaw and Waskerley reservoirs. The answer was that the purple was good, but not at its peak and it was also extremely grey. The forecast was for overcast skies, and drizzle in the Lake District, but I think they were confused about which side of the North Pennines was which, but the grey grew gradually wetter and wetter, so when we climbed out onto the railway walk, instead of walking on to Waskerley reservoir, we walked the other way, back to the 'station' where we'd left the car. We drove round to the reservoir and picnicked at the picnic site, but in the car, and then, since it didn't seem to be clearing, came home. Conclusion: a promising route, worth trying again.
