Sunday 5 January 2014

A Slight Incline...

Yesterday we did a walk I've done many times over the years. Colin always refers to its "slight incline" because when I introduced him to it, shortly after we met, I said it was an easy walk with a "slight incline" at the beginning (and the middle and the end..) He has distrusted my descriptions of walks ever since.

We set off from Scorton up Snowhill taking the public footpath over Nickey Nook...

This is the first "incline" with the views back over the Lancashire plains and the Irish Sea in the distance...

and looking up to the muddy path ahead...

En route we pass Grizedale Reservoirs..

The first of the "inclines" over, we near the summit..

Age doesn't seem to matter when there are sheep to be chased... This is my daughter, Jane, reliving her childhood on the descent!

....until she is literally stopped in her tracks by this...

Some sad person has seen fit to deface this sign...

Most of the trees looked pretty well-balanced but perhaps these qualify as unstable..

The walk then follows the path of Grizedale Brook to rejoin the road.. which was just as well as the light was fading fast..

The "slight inclines" aren't really that bad, but I must say, they seem to be increasing with age!

4 comments:

NickL said...

Ahha..tis all uphill from now.....
A slowly ripening Nick.....

Jean said...

Lovely winter scenes. A good walk does you good, especially at this time of year.

GaynorB said...

Great walk. It looks as though you were lucky with the weather as well.

We did the annual walk on Cannock Chase yesterday with partners of my walking group. The forecast was awful but the rain held off until just before we arrived at the pub! Thank goodness, as when the rain started it came in a deluge.

Jean said...

I'm just wondering if the skull belonged to one of the thousands of sheep that perished in the heavy snows last spring.
I was thinking about the fact that we haven't had any snow yet and remembering the tragic fate of the poor lambs in Derbyshire last March.