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A walk in the Black Mountains
Aug. 30th, 2004 08:01 pmOn Sunday, Ed, Alex and I did this walk:
[purple are the bottom of valleys, orange the top of ridges; there are invisible orange lines under the black route-mark on left and right]
When the sun's shining, it's an absolutely idyllic forked glacial valley, and the walk's got two long ridges and an escarpment from which you can see across Wales. When it was raining, I felt absolutely, disproportionately miserable, despite GoreTex to keep me warm and dry; not sure there's much I can do about this bar resolving to walk only in the sun.
The views made it worth the weight on my neck of the Camera of Unusual Size - these are 15%-scaled images, I'll show the beautifully sharp full-size ones to anyone who can stand the 700k download (or face my hospitality in person; I make good chocolate cake :).
[purple are the bottom of valleys, orange the top of ridges; there are invisible orange lines under the black route-mark on left and right]
When the sun's shining, it's an absolutely idyllic forked glacial valley, and the walk's got two long ridges and an escarpment from which you can see across Wales. When it was raining, I felt absolutely, disproportionately miserable, despite GoreTex to keep me warm and dry; not sure there's much I can do about this bar resolving to walk only in the sun.
The views made it worth the weight on my neck of the Camera of Unusual Size - these are 15%-scaled images, I'll show the beautifully sharp full-size ones to anyone who can stand the 700k download (or face my hospitality in person; I make good chocolate cake :).
