Filed under: exercise, friends, weather | Tags: Greensand Way, North Downs Way, Skimmington, Surrey, walking
This Sunday’s walk was meant to be a biggy, both in terms of distance and in terms of people. The plan was to get 6 of the Yorkshire 3-peakers together to practice walking together over a longish distance around Ditchling and Devils Dyke. Yet again Sunday started as a miserable day and we lost two walkers before we even left the house. We consulted the others and opted for a shorter walk near them so we could more easily escape the weather.
The walk started at the pub in Skimmington, where we picked up the Greensand Way, following it to the top of Colley Hill:
We’d all learnt from the previous week and were fully waterproofed-up. It rained on and off for much of the walk, though the rain was fairly light and we could take our hoods down occasionally. The ground however was saturated after a week of rain and there were massive puddles and lots of mud everywhere:
We walked along the ridge, passing a beautiful folly and a victorian water tower, before joining the North Downs Way for a while. This section passed through some lovely woodland and we’d love to walk here again on a sunny day. Turning south to Buckland we began to head back to Skimmington and our pub lunch (delicious and very welcome). In the end the rain eased off and we had a thoroughly enjoyable and varied walk, despite the mud (route).
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