Health Walk - Thursday 22nd June 2017
Photos by Michael - Please click on photos to see a larger one
Today we only had twenty-one walkers and rain before the start. Do we have some fine-weather walkers? The rain stopped as we started and we had a pleasant walk in the relative cool. A bit dark for photos.
Margaret W was leading the main walk, John W was back marker. Peter, back from caravanning, was leading the short walk option (Elite), Suzi back marking, six today.
Margaret outlined her walk, virtually the reverse of Carmel's Tuesday walk, and led us off round past the sunny (not today) side of the Hall and down Snake Hill.
We walked over the Stone Bridge, around the bottom of the Dam and up to and round the Lake.
Climbing up into the Field we walked to Hawks Clough and started to walk clockwise round the ASDA Loop through Green Wood. Having climbed two sets of steps, the last one forty-one steps high, we emerged onto Cam Lane and headed towards the Ponderosa.
Arriving back at Hawks Clough we walked along the Field down through the Kissing Gate and down the Slope to the Cycle Track, turning left to walk along the river.
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Through the gloom the new building was visible on our right - how grand it will be when it will only be a short climb into the warmth and dry, bacon butties for some.
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Next landmark the Wooden Bridge
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Over the bridge the new building again in sight looking grand without the scaffolding.
Struggling up Cardiac Hill
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we paused to recover as we entered the Pinetum
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before pressing on
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back to the Barn.
The Elite walkers set off in the reverse direction to us, entering the Pinetum from the car park and going down Cardiac Hill, over the Wooden Bridge. Here they departed from our route and went up into Gravel Hole Wood, Dog Kennel Wood, picking up our route again round the Lake down the Long Steps, along the bottom of the Dam, over the Stone Bridge, up Snake Hill, round the back of the Hall and back to the Barn.
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Today's walks (Red Main Group, Green Short Walk Option Group). Where there are green arrows on the red route it means the Elite walkers had followed the main >> or the main group had followed the Elite walkers >>
Today's walkers
Main Walk - Bernadette, Carmel, Colin C, Colin D, Elizabeth M, Graham, Helen G, James Mc, Janet S, John W, Linda E, Linda P, Margaret W, Michael S & Stephanie
Short Walk Group - Ann S, Carol R, Jennifer, Norman, Peter & Suzi
The Chorley Walks.
