Post by mick on Nov 12, 2013 4:40:26 GMT
Taken from my web thingy
After my last walk up at Kidland forest I made a silent promised to return as soon as possible and have a mooch around the areas the forestry people had opened up with there new tracks and see what could be seen now as zillions of trees had been chopped down , I had a few hills that I wanted to get up and spent a silly amount of time on goggle earth seeing if it was possible to see a route , in the end I decided just to play it by ear and see how thing worked out , however I knew that they had opened up Sneer Hill so that was my target for today , it meant that it was going to be a bigish walk but hopefully most of it was going to be on forestry tracks so distance wise it shouldn’t be a problem.
The only problem that there might be is daylight hours , to compensate for this I decided on a early start and would make sure that I had my head torch packed and a spare set batteries also I would make sure Bobs coat has the fleece attached and had the little flashing light fitted with a spare batteries .
Cont at :-
www.onefootinnorthumberland.co.uk/NRIK.htm
As normal a few photos enjoy.
A fox doing a runner, it burst out of the undergrowth turned and back again in the blink of an eye
Bob waiting for me to carry him across the ford
Heading up alongside the Lindhope burn
On our way up stopping to look back down
I think that I am looking towards a distant Cushat Law
Looking down towards the building at Whiteburnshank
A view of Kidland forest as we make our way along Clennell Street
Local sheep, at this point I put Bob on the lead, the last thing I want is bob and some stroppy sheep having a battle of wills.
Starting to cut down towards the river Alwin and the car (still a mile or so to go)
Clennell Hill
a quick look at the GPS and was surprise to see that we had walked 14.3 miles with 2477 ft. of the ups and downs...No wonder both Bob & I was knackered.
Thanks for reading ….mick
After my last walk up at Kidland forest I made a silent promised to return as soon as possible and have a mooch around the areas the forestry people had opened up with there new tracks and see what could be seen now as zillions of trees had been chopped down , I had a few hills that I wanted to get up and spent a silly amount of time on goggle earth seeing if it was possible to see a route , in the end I decided just to play it by ear and see how thing worked out , however I knew that they had opened up Sneer Hill so that was my target for today , it meant that it was going to be a bigish walk but hopefully most of it was going to be on forestry tracks so distance wise it shouldn’t be a problem.
The only problem that there might be is daylight hours , to compensate for this I decided on a early start and would make sure that I had my head torch packed and a spare set batteries also I would make sure Bobs coat has the fleece attached and had the little flashing light fitted with a spare batteries .
Cont at :-
www.onefootinnorthumberland.co.uk/NRIK.htm
As normal a few photos enjoy.
A fox doing a runner, it burst out of the undergrowth turned and back again in the blink of an eye
Bob waiting for me to carry him across the ford
Heading up alongside the Lindhope burn
On our way up stopping to look back down
I think that I am looking towards a distant Cushat Law
Looking down towards the building at Whiteburnshank
A view of Kidland forest as we make our way along Clennell Street
Local sheep, at this point I put Bob on the lead, the last thing I want is bob and some stroppy sheep having a battle of wills.
Starting to cut down towards the river Alwin and the car (still a mile or so to go)
Clennell Hill
a quick look at the GPS and was surprise to see that we had walked 14.3 miles with 2477 ft. of the ups and downs...No wonder both Bob & I was knackered.
Thanks for reading ….mick
