Ron

Rowley (Picnic Area Car Park) – (old railway) – Waskerley – Smiddy Shaw Reservoir – Horsleyhope – Healeyfield – Rowley

Generally terrible. Very wet and very windy, one or two short sunny spells.

Ron, Sandy, George, Michelle, Michael, Ken.

Ashley - iin Thailand

Diane - at choir practice

Richard - working

Comments

A character-building walk and a test of the waterproofs. However, the path conditions were good and we came back with relatively clean boots. We managed a resonably sheltered lunch at Waskerley Station, where the picnic tables had been partially burnt by barbeque users.

During the walk we saw a stylish owl box and a rainbow. Waskerley Church was locked. The water on the reservoir was stormy. We only met three people – two female joggers and a man in a camouflage jacket.

Wildlife: Red kite, two geese and a skein of geese (v-formation), grey squirrel, rabbit, grouse and blackface sheep.

The Badger, Ponteland

Walkers at lunch

Geese