Saturday 14 March 7.5 miles
Jane, Tracey, Hilary + Carol
The weather was very wet on Friday so I was a bit worried about getting wet on this walk but we woke to a sunny morning! We were very lucky that the sun lasted for the whole walk and only clouded over on our way home.
It was a bit cold as we got out of the car as the wind was blowing so it was a good job we had gloves and hats with us. We did get a bit warm as we set out up the first hill so the hats and gloves came off and Hilary's coat as well.
It was windy again as we got to the ridge so the extra layers were needed again. We started to walk through the woods the path down to the Dove was steep and we had to watch our footing through the tree roots.
As we all decided we were hungry we had lunch sitting on a log by the Dove. It was good to be sitting by moving water. I had thought it would be sheltered in the valley but it wasn't we had to put all our layers on again! Of course we found a more sheltered area further along the river!!
As we walked up Hall Dale we were walking into the wind again, it was quite hard work in places. We starting talking about why we go walking and the conclusion was that we can eat cake!
A dry stone waller was repairing a farmer's wall the new wall looked excellent, he repairs about 4m a day!
I think we all enjoyed walking through this beautiful Staffordshire countryside.
Ilam Hall is a National Trust property so were were guaranteed good cake!
Ilam Hall is also a YHA building which is being refurbished - it looks like a good place to stay once it is finished.
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