It was just typical, I was stuck in working all day Saturday when the sun was shining and the skies were blue. Now when I was going out to meet up with some friends in Teesdale for a walk the grey skies had come back! It even snowed a little while I was driving up there and through the early part of the walk. Having a layer of fresh snow on the moors sort of compensated for the lack of sunshine. The reason for today's walk was to redo a walk that I first did back in June 2008 with a group of people I'd next through the 'Life for the Outdoors' forum. We'd walked up the river to High Force and then cut over the moors to join the Pennine Way which we followed back to Middleton-in-Teesdale village. Along the way we'd found a shooting hut were we had out lunch. It came up in conversation a few weeks ago about going back to re-visit the 'hut' so the plan was hatched to meet up today. We decided to do the walk in reverse this time, as it would hopefully mean we get there around lunchtime. The hut would would provide some shelter on a cold snowy day like today, unlike last time when we used it as a shelter from the strong sun! The photos from the previous walk can be found here .... 1st NETTY walk
Looking back towards Middleton-in-Teesdale as we started to climb along the Pennine Way
Heading towards Kirkcarrion
If you are following the Pennine Way this is about a close as you get to it
Graham posing by a cairn, with a partly frozen Grassholme Reservoir in the background
A view across Lunedale towards Selset Reservoir
Mission accomplished the shooting hut had been found again
Now time for some lunch!
After lunch we headed off over the snowy moorland towards Holwick
It was pretty bleak up there and the wind made it feel very chilly I can tell you
Winter walking in Teesdale
A lone tree on a rocky outcrop
Holwick Scar
Heading down towards Holwick village
Another view of Holwick Scar
Our next calling point was Low Force
Well you know me by now I can pass this place without a few photos
I was pretty pleased with them since I wasn't using a tripod
Captions on a postcard please!
The River Tees
Which we followed all the way back along the Pennine way to Middleton-in-Teesdale
What's that I can see on the other side of the valley, sunshine? Well for about 5 seconds!
Walking back into Middleton-in-Teesdale, time for a drink in the pub to warm up!