Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Crossing 'a bit' of Dartmoor - 2/3 May 09
Dartmoor is a lot more extensive than I realised, and so my 15 mile crossing from Lydford to South Zeal just chopped off the Northwest corner, but exposed me to much of the essential Dartmoor. I managed to include 10 Tors (but not 'the' Ten Tors - which is considerably further), in an afternoon and morning, and included a camp on Oke Tor on my way (first solo camp ever, I think).
This is good moorland walking, but without the peat hags of the pennines, and with the bonus that each high point had a splendid granite Tor, of which Great Links Tor (584m) required a tricky move to gain the top...probably as tricky as any summit in England.
The weather was a real bonus, but again it rained overnight...but the second morning was really dramatic lighting, and encouraged me to go black and white in some of my photos. The full set is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adeeh2/sets/72157617706575585/
At the end I arrived in South Zeal where Dee, Izzy and Auntie Margaret were looking after Matthew, Angus, and Helen, while Phil and Anne were on their 10th Anniversary. They returned on the Sunday and we had a lovely afternoon playing games in the garden.
