Health Walk - Thursday 10th August 2017
Photos by Michael - Please click on photos to see a larger one
Today we had thirty-two walkers and dry weather. Jacqueline and Chris came from Skipton, the 'Famous Five' were reunited. Carole, Helen, Jacqueline, Mary & Michael took part in the first Cuerden walk in 2010
Michael was leading the main walk, Carmel was back marker. Suzi was leading the short walk option (Elite) - twelve today.
Michael introduced the walk and set off via the little path through the car park and down Snake Hill.
The Elite walkers stuck to the road and left the Car Park past the Pay Station to go down the path into the Pinetum and down Cardiac Hill, over the Wooden Bridge, turning right, walked up into the woods and through to the Lake, opposite to the way we would walk later.
Because of all the previous the rain Michael said he was going to do a walk where he thought there would be no puddles and mud however when walking alongside the Picnic Area towards the slope up to the Field he noticed the path along the bottom of Dam was dry.
Plans abandoned! He led the walkers along the bottom of the Dam and up the longer of the two sets of steps to Lake.
He walked round the Lake,
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Round the Lake and up the steps into the Field. This photo is out of focus? By some act of carelessness/fumbling my camera was set to manual and I only discovered this in the afternoon at Breathe Easy. Luckily a few are acceptable
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Along the path to Hawks Clough. Photo 2 is 'real' but photo 3 is Photoshopped. Some people 'Liked' photo 3 which I'd put on Facebook.
Instead of walking up to the Ponderosa he carried on down the hill where the expected mud and water was quite passable. Round the top, down Green Wood alongside Clayton Green ASDA which is now almost hidden
Coming out on to Cam Lane we turned right and walked passed the Ponderosa instead of going down Sheep Hill. The Ponderosa's gates were closed - photo out of focus.
At this point Michael said to Carmel "Are you feeling mischievous"! which is a daft question because Carmel is always mischievous. So we swapped positions, Carmel taking over the lead. I wondered if anyone would notice but it turned out Carmel had told them that Michael was at the back tired so she'd taken over the lead - the laugh is on me!
We followed Carmel to Hawks Clough, along the Field and down to the Kissing Gate and up into Dog Kennel Wood. We walked through the wood into Gravel Hole Wood and down the edge of Black Banks Wood turning right to find the Wooden Bridge
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We crossed the Wooden Bridge following the path that the Elite walkers had walked down earlier.
They had walked in the opposite direction through the woods and down the slope to the shorter of the two sets of steps up to the Lake, along the Dam, down the longer steps to the Picnic Area, over the Stone Bridge and up Snake Hill, down by the side of the new building into the Pinetum then up the remainder of Cardiac Hill back to the Barn.
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We walked up Cardiac Hill
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pausing for a breather before moving off through the Pinetum back to the Barn
The Elite group, after leaving Dog Kennel Wood, walked down the slope to the short steps, climbing and walked along the Dam to the long steps and walked along the bottom of the Dam to the Stone Bridge.
They crossed the Bridge and walked up Snake Hill extending their walk by passing the new building and going down the path into the Pinetum and returning up the next path to the car park then walking up the side of the Barn past the south side of the Hall round the front of the Hall and back to the Barn.
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Today's walks (Red Main Group, Green Short Walk Option Group). Main Group: 2.8 miles in 61 minutes, Short 2 miles
Dotted red line is where some walkers took a short cut
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 >>. >> walking the same route twice.
Today's walkers
Main Walk - Angela, Aysha, Barry, Bernadette, Brenda, Carmel, Colin D, David H, Elizabeth M, Graham, Helen G, James H, James Mc, Janet S, Jean, Joe H, Keith, Kerry, Linda E, Linda P, Michael S & Moira
Short Walk Group - Ann S, Carol R, Carole, Chris, Elizabeth E, Jacqueline, Linda, Margaret W, Mary, Norman, Sandy & Suzi
The Chorley Walks.
