#walking

19 hours ago

Darby Creek, PA

Local people call this place “the beach” 🤔
- I can see a hint of tropical island 😊🌴
But it’s in southeastern Pennsylvania, along the noisy Interstate 476 😉
A popular fishing spot 🎣

Happy #FlyFishing #Fishing #FlyTying #Hiking #Outdoor #Walking #Creek #Nature

19 hours ago

Darby Creek, PA

Today, I used an old fly rod - Scott SES 9’ 5wt - it is heavier than the today’s standard 😉
Every time I use this fly rod, I am convinced that I don’t need to buy a new rod - this rod is smooth and makes me smile 😊

Happy #FlyFishing #Fishing #FlyTying #Hiking #Outdoor #Walking #Creek #Nature

22 hours ago

A short day to finish on day 7 in the #KingRange on the #LostCoastTrail and more. Getting in a bit more #tidepooling and wandering the #dunes.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-punta-gorda-lighthouse.html
#hiking #backpacking #walking #trekking #crab #beach #nature #landscape #California #HumboldtCounty #NaturePhotography #landscapePhotography #getoutside #optoutside #ocean

Tide pools on Mattole Beach. Dark rocks with water pooling in the low spots. There's more rocks scattered in the water beyond and waves trying to crash through them. A distant marine layer sits on the water and there happens to be a small boat in the distance to the right.

Striped shore crab. Claws, light on the inside, deliver bits of kelp to the mouth of a small crab just under the water. The crab is mostly dark colors with light green stripes and molting on its shell. Around the crab is a bit of green algae and rock above the water.

Mattole Beach. Standing in the dunes looking out to the dark sand beach. One section of the beach has dark rocks at the water that extend out a little. There's a distant fog bank, but otherwise the sky is blue.

Sandy path through dunes at Mattole Beach. A sandy trail winds between light green plants, some of them showing purple flowers. To the right are green hills and to the left is the Pacific Ocean. Ahead are more hill ranges. It is all under blue sky with a distant fog bank.

23 hours ago

Day 6 was generally spent on the Cooskie Creek Route through the #KingRange. One of the best reasons to get off the #beach and see more when #hiking the #LostCoastTrail.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-cooskie-creek-route.html
#backbacking #trekking #walking #landscape #nature #views #California #KingRangeNationalConservationArea #Humboldt #solohiker #mariposalily #seaside

Above Randall Creek on the Cooskie Creek Route. Ridges repeat off into the distance in ever lighter grey-blue colors. In the foreground, grassy hills have a line of Douglas fir. The next hill is also green with a large patch of trees to the left away from the ocean. After that are the vanishing ridges. All is under a blue sky.

Cooskie Creek Route going north. A faint trail of greener grass is visible on the right as it crosses a grassy hill. Another grassy hill is behind that and a grassy cliff behind that. All have lines of Douglas fir trees cutting up the grass areas.

Tolmie's pussy ears. This mariposa lily has three petals of purple with darker purple at the center. Long hairs cover the petals. Between the petals, the sepals are visible. Blue and purple stamen are visible at the center. There is a cluster of three, one still in bud, Grass grows up taller than the little flowers.

North end of Cooskie Creek Route. Looking down a shrub covered hillside that drops steeply to the dark sand beach below. Waves wash the beach leaving a little sand visible. A line of wave comes in for more washing of the sand.

Day 5 meant facing up to more trail that hadn't been worked since a tough winter. I managed it, a bit of road walk, and unexpected dry camping that I was perfectly prepared for.
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-king-crest-to-spanish-ridge.html
#hiking #backpacking #trekking #walking #landscape #nature #ridge #KingRangeWilderness #solohiker #California #Humboldt #KingRangeNationalConservationArea

Inland from the King Crest Trail.
Rolling hills with patches of light and dark green are topped with a thin layer of clouds below otherwise blue sky. The foreground contains tree tops, both leafy and dead.

Seaside canyon from the King Crest Trail.
Wispy clouds on the ridge tops on either side of the canyon reach down into its steep sides full of slides too steep for anything to grow. Less steep surfaces are topped with trees. Out the end of the canyon, the ocean is visible.

Looking back along the King Range to King Peak. Peaks of green under a mostly blue sky.

Now hiking on a grassy hill on Cooskie Creek Route, looking south along the King Range. Nearby, green grass has scattered Douglas firs. In the distance, hills are covered with the trees except for a grey spot of slide on Northslide Mountain.

Greg Restall

Thanks, especially, to @walkhighlands, for their public online repository of maps and guides for walks across Scotland. They make it *so* easy to find your way around and get out and about, whether for a short day walk or a longer adventure.

#walking #Scotland

A black-and-white view to Tobermory lighthouse, with a gull in the sky and a sailboat out on the harbour.

Day 4 was time to get off the #beach and the #LostCoastTrail. I headed up Rattlesnake Ridge into the #KingRange for camp by a high spring nearly at the top. https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-rattlesnake-ridge.html
#hiking #backpacking #trekking #walking #landscape #nature #photography #NaturePhotography #landscapePhotography #KingRangeNationalConservationArea #water

On the Lost Coast Trail approaching Miller Flat and Big Flat. Water pooling on a black pebble and sand beach. Waves wash the other side of rocks that hold the pool. Green hills covered in trees are on the other side of the beach.

On Big Flat near the junction with Lost Coast Trail and Rattlesnake Ridge Trail. Two hills on either side, both covered in trees but the left one showing an old burn with a patch of dead and bleached trees. Between is the canyon of Big Flat Creek. Between the hills are higher mountains, the tops with clouds swirling around.

Big Flat Creek from the side of the trail. Water flows on the right, lined by alders and pine trees.

Rattlesnake Ridge. Looking steeply down the canyon of Big Flat Creek to the ocean and land flats below. Foam from waves at the edge of the ocean is visible. Everything of land is covered in trees and brush.

Greg Restall

…and a few more scenes, from #Mull, #Iona and #Lochanine

#walking #Scotland

Looking down to the sandy beach at Calgary Bay.

Sheep on the road at Fionnphort, heading down to the Iona Ferry.

The last ferry from Fishnish (on Mull), heading back to Lochanine.

The Abbey at Iona, with a view across to Mull.

Greg Restall

A few scenes from a weekend on #Mull.

#walking #Scotland

A view down to Loch Frisa, and the hills of Mull.

A view from the hills behind Loch Carnain an Amais, back toward the Loch.

A view from the path between Tobermory and the nearby lighthouse, through trees, toward Kilchoan.

A view of Duart Castle, on the Isle of Mull, looking out over the sea towards Craignure.

Monsterlander

Cracking walk today from the wonderfully named Wildboarclough, up to similarly well-named Toot Hill, down through Macclesfield Forest, and up to the interesting little peak of Shutlingsloe. #walking #peakDistrict #photography #landscapePhotography #hiking

Ordnance survey map of a 5.32 mile circular walk as described in the main post.

A field with alpacas dotted around, focussing on three standing quite close together in a line staring at us. The one on the left is sort of caramel coloured and the other two are black. The ones dotted around the field are a mixture of white and brown. Pleasant farmland climbs up the valley behind them, with a large are of evergreen woodland, and the odd deciduous tree around the walls in the middle of the picture.

Looking North towards Manchester from the slopes of Shutlingsloe. A tiny white speck on the left of the picture in the distance is Joddrell bank telescope.

The photo is taken from a well kept slab path on some high grassy moorland, looking towards a landscape of forest and hills. The sky is a pleasant mix of white clouds and blue.

Light bulbs

1/ “How parking explains the world”
Interesting conversation that starts out relatively pro-car and then gets into the consequences of building pro-car cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTeWOPwaRwU
#Urbanism #Parking #Cycling #Walking #Walkability

Random notes:
* Some of the most beloved parts of cities were built around 1900. This way of building is now illegal in the USA – partly due to parking requirements.

A little wander
#Itchen #walking #nature #phonephotography

Slow wander along a winding dusty footpath dry after several days of full sun, but flanked by lush greenery because of the chalkstream just out of view.

dr jamesbicycle

https://slate.com/business/2023/05/parking-spots-cities-paved-paradise-cars.html

How do we break the cycle in which a perceived parking shortage requires us to make cities awful?

Ruin cities for #cycling, #walking, affordable #housing, attractive design and less #traffic.

"Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World"

dr jamesbicycle

Pay more if you're parking an SUV and a heavy pickup truck.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/05/16/heres-a-big-idea-the-larger-the-car-the-more-you-pay-to-park-the-damn-thing/…

#car #suv #driving #urbanism #walking #parking

#Backpacking #PNW #Washington #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

S. Washington PCT Backpacking: Day 3

Look at this view of Mount Hood! Absolutely gorgeous. I’m sitting on the edge of a cliff on Table Mountain across the Columbia River in Washington State.

Mount Hood rising above the Cascade mount range. The 11,249 peak is covered in snow. Beautiful blue sky above the mountain.

dr.wu

Kilometer 8 war heute übel. Wurde dann von zwei Tagpfauenaugen und einer Libelle am Feldrand begleitet (leider nicht im Bild, aber hilfreich für die gute Laune). #Nordicwalking #Walking

#Backpacking #PNW #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

S. Washington PCT Backpacking: Day 3

Woke up to something chewing a hole in the leather of my boots. This isn’t the AT, we don’t have mice I don’t think. I have a feeling it was something larger. What could it possibly be?

Heading up the West Table Mountain trail. Clear skies so far. 🤞🏼

Keen boots with a hole in the leader that some critter chewed.

JAPAN SAPPORO WALK

https://youtu.be/_QcNa2lkPuc

We took a walk at Tenjin wisteria, the oldest wisteria trellis in Hokkaido, located in Tenjinyama Park, Toyohira Ward, Sapporo. 🤗
札幌の豊平区、天神山緑地にある北海道最古の藤棚「天神藤」を散歩しました。🤗
#藤棚 #天神山緑地 #札幌 #豊平区 #平岸 #北海道 #日本 #街歩き #散歩 #散策 #wisteriatrellis #tenjinyamapark #hiragishi #toyohiraward #sapporo #hokkaido #japan #walking

Alx 🐈

Is #Mosstodon still a thing? Here a little contribution from South Devon 😊

Found along our way to #Dartmoor

With @inqbiol
#Moss #Nature #NaturePhotography #Walking

Rock and trees covered with green moss and ivy

Bec

#tea #injuries #walking #weekend #writing

It's been a strange weekend. Went to the markets with Kid4, then managed to sprain my ankle on the way home from the bus stop (Adam brought Jarrah, who was super excited and pulled me over while I was walking on some loose gravel). Super painful yesterday but a lot better today.

Now it's a grey Sunday and I've been out of sorts all day. I need to write but not feeling inspired. Currently drinking a ginger and lemon tea in the hopes I'll pull myself out of my doldrums.

0x5DA

went walking _again_ with friends on saturday. it was beautiful weather.
so much fun :D

#walking

happyhiker

This #LakeDistrict walk should be quieter than some of the better known routes during busy #BankHoliday times. It progresses from Great Dodd to Clough Head providing great views along the way. Details at https://tinyurl.com/2t4apxak

#Cumbria #Walking

A panoramic view over the Lake District.

Looking towards Keswick. The prominent hill to the right of centre is Skiddaw. White clouds hover above the hill beneath a clear blue sky.

The stone built trig. point sits on top of the green, grassy hill top of Clough Head. Blencathra is the hill n the background, to the right of the trig. point.

The rocky outcrop Wolf Crags towers over the green grassy foreground.

WACOCA

#４k #4k30fps #4kvideo #ASMR #BinauralSound #gopro #goprohero9 #japan #japantrip #japanwalk #localcity #regionalcity #tour #UCUlecQ9q3yVvV4kuw8ZC1IA #virtual #walk #walking #walkingtour #商店街 #地方都市 #散歩 #旅行 #日本 #歩く #登別温泉 #観光

Hokkaido: Noboribetsu Onsen (登別温泉) – Japan Walking Tour #shorts #shortsvideo https://www.wacoca.com/tour/114913/

Stephen Basile

Beautiful walk today. #walking #forest #hiking

Víctor Manuel Ramos

The path forward on a marshy trail in Islip, New York. #trails #walking #nature

Water carves a channel through the marsh.

Wood planks to get walkers unscathed through the mud.

Day 3 on the #LostCoastTrail started cold, but the overnight storm had finished and sun was coming for the finish of the hike on the #beach. https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/05/lost-coast-big-flat-to-shelter-cove-and.html
#hiking #backpacking #trekking #walking #California #nature #ocean #NaturePhotography #KingRange #sunset #landscape #landscapePhotography #CaliforniaCoastalTrail

Miller Flat on the Lost Coast Trail. A green grass covered flat ends at a sudden cliff of maybe 15 feet high that drops to a rocky beach. In the distance, there are burned trees on a green hill. Further off, the mountain tops vanish into clouds of the grey sky.

Sun coming out on a black sand beach. Cliffs rise on the left, topped by trees. A flat ocean laps at the sand from the right.

Shelter Cover, Black Sands Beach. Watching the waves roll in beside a rock. Water gushes through a tunnel in the rock. Across a little bit of ocean, cliffs rise to a flat with trees and sparse buildings.

Horse Mountain Creek campsite, sunset from underneath the tarp. An orange sky with scattered clouds is broken by a line and pole on one side and distant hills on the other. There's a lot of beach with some big driftwood, the light driftwood is about the only thing visible on the dark beach.

Trout slurping - birds chirping ☺️
I should’ve really brought a fly rod 🤨 but nice and relaxing before the next youth soccer game 😊

Happy #FlyFishing #Fishing #FlyTying #Hiking #Outdoor #Walking #Creek #Nature

Deborah League

ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/a-walk-inthe-rain-deborah-league.html

A Walk In The Rain, digital painting. Moody and sweet, a woman walks in the rain surrounded by reflected light.

#mastodon #mastoart #buyintoart #rain #moody #colorful #art #artist #AYearForArt #fediart #photography #fedigiftshop #digitalart #fediverse #artbooster #artwork #woman #walking #impressionism #painting

A Walk In The Rain. In this impressionistic, digital painting, a woman in a green dress with a colorful scarf, carries an open umbrella to shield herself from the evening rain. In the distance an illuminated restaurant casts a colorful glow on the wet pavement of the street.

West Branch Chester Creek, PA

Taking a break between the games 😉
I should’ve bought a fly rod 🤔

#YouthSoccer #Soccer #Sport #Fishing #FlyFishing #Outdoor #Nature #Creek #Hiking #Walking

Andreas Scherbaum

#Spaziergang #Walking #Foto #Fotografie #Lübars #Berlin #TegelerFließ

Spaziergang nach Lübars, zum Eis essen

Das Foto zeigt eine blaue Blume am Straßenrand

Mud and Routes

Not just a foul weather option but a recommended one
#tryfan #bochlwyd ##cwmildwal
#Eryri #hike #snowdonianationalpark #MudandRoutes
#northwales #discovercymru #visitsnowdonia #snowdonia #outdoors #hiking #walking #visitwales #gogleddcymru #cymru
https://buff.ly/3WHOZ6N

#Backpacking #PNW #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

S. Washington PCT Backpacking: Day 2

Here’s the view from Table Mountain!

#InTheMiddleOfAWetCloud

Completely cloudy view from Table Mountain. You can see the viewpoint in the bottom left.

#Backpacking #PNW #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

S. Washington PCT Backpacking: Day 2

Heading up the Heartbreak Ridge trail. It’s very steep, even when there’s switchbacks. Made it to the boulder field. It’s cloudy so not sure if there will be views. Enjoying the climb.

Rock field heading up the heartbreak ridge trail to Table Mountain. Lots of rocks up a very steep ridge.

AJ

Another gorgeous day up on the edge of the peaks! I don't know which countries weather has been sent to the UK by mistake this week, but I'll take it thanks!
#walking #peakdistrict #countryside #photography

A steep wooded bank, photographed from the bottom looking up into the canopies of the trees - tall and old. Dappled light floods down from above from a sky that's almost totally obscured by the soaring trunks and bustle of leaves.

From above we look down on a small, man made lake. Surrounded by trees, with a small island, covered with trees too. The sky above is a brilliant blue, devoid of even the merest wisp of cloud and the view is frame by dark green leaves and branches.

#Backpacking #PNW #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

S. Washington PCT Backpacking: Day 2

Here’s another photo from yesterday. Survived the thunderstorms and now I’m attempting to summit Table Mountain.

Forest in southern Washington. Blue sky with a few white clouds.

dr.wu

https://youtu.be/eBQDXXf-1ww

Heute Morgen noch vor dem Frühstück 4,2 km gewalkt. Erweiterte Hausrunde über den Campus. Nicht wirklich meine Lieblingszeit für Sport, aber herrliches Licht und tolles Gezwitscher im Wald. #Walking #Nordicwalking

Have you ever been to a ship graveyard? ⛴️

Last Friday I walked to Purton Ships Graveyard on the River Severn, where old vessels have been deliberately beached and allowed to silt up, to help fight shore erosion.

This video is best viewed full screen on a phone.

#purtonshipsgraveyard #severn #gloucestershire #walking #rambling #countryside #psychogeography

happyhiker

3 days ago

You need to watch the tide times for this lovely walk from the pretty village of Runswick Bay to Kettleness. The return is an easy stroll along the Cinder Track (disused railway route). For details, see https://tinyurl.com/yckucrbc

#Yorkshire #Walking #YorkshireCoast #NorthYorkMoors

#Backpacking #PNW #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

3 days ago

S. Washington PCT Backpacking: Day 1

Made it out on the trail at sunrise. Little bit of a green tunnel so far but just hit this view of Gillette Lake and Table Mountain. So happy to be out in nature. There is something so freeing about living off of only the possessions you have in your backpack.

View of the Pacific Crest Trail with a lake in the bottom left, trees in front with a mountain behind the trees.

Bec

3 days ago

I wanted to get some bulky items -- potting mix and chook food, which would be difficult to get without a car.

So I asked Dad if I could borrow his, and I picked it up last night and he came and collected it this afternoon. In the time I drove it (less than 24 hours) I got pulled over for RBT (random drug and alcohol testing) THREE TIMES 😂

That doesn't happen when you're walking and riding the bus!!

But I got the things I needed and sorted out a delivery in a month for chook food so I don't have to bother with that for a while.

Being carfree is otherwise going swimmingly...

#carfree #bus #walking

WTL

4 days ago

Day 41 of #Running recovery break. Today, 24km of #Cycling and 5km of #walking. Another nice and cool morning, expect those to come to an end soon. Had to brake *hard* to avoid colliding with, I kid you not, a flying goose.

Strava map showing a 24km ride starting in Bordeleau Park, through Lowertown to the Rideau Canal Eastern Pathway, over the Corktown Bridge, south along the Rideau Canal Western Pathway, over the Flora Street bridge back onto the Rideau Canal Eastern Pathway over to the Rideau River Eastern Pathway and followed it south to Hog’s Back, then onto the Rideau Canal Eastern Pathway to the Hartwell Locks, through onto the Rideau River Eastern Pathway, over the Minto Bridges, and finishing in Bordeleau Park.

Strava Map of the 5 KM walk starting in Bordeleau Park, over to St Patrick, over the brige, south along the Rideau River Eastern Pathway to the Adawe Crossing, through Strathcona Park and Sandy Hill, and then back into Lowertown.

Fifteen baby goslings (No Ryans among them) on the grass beside the Rideau River.

Mud and Routes

5 days ago

Great Gable is one of the most iconic mountain in the Lake District.

#MudandRoutes #lakedistrict #walking #walkinguk #hillwalking #hiking #hike #mountaineering #outdoors #Lakedistrict
#fellwalking
https://www.mudandroutes.com/routes/all-the-walking-routes-up-great-gable/

Dan Walker

6 days ago

Social media makes it easy to see how #motonormotivity affects the way people talk about safety. A new driver asked for tips on driving downtown. Pedestrians were the primary topic. The blame-shifting between “pedestrians have right of way but they don't wait for traffic to clear” and “go slow and wait for any pedestrians in the crosswalks" is clear. It is the responsibility of the less vulnerable to watch out for the more vulnerable.

#WalkableCities #Urbanism #walking #SafeStreetsForAll

Helen Clayton

#bluebells #dartmoor #EmsworthyMire #walking #hiking #nature

The bluebells are out at Emsworthy Mire, a little bit earlier than usual (although later than other bluebells down this way) & well…quite spectacular!

I also spotted a cuckoo, a common redstart & a red kite! Happy girl.

A sea of purple-blue bluebells in the foreground, in front of a granite barn with a red corrugated iron roof nestled in a group of mature sycamore and ash trees in new leaf. The sky is blue with a few fluffy white clouds.

C.S. Mills

Shortcut during fieldwork across the interior dunes, lunch in a calm hollow. Sand cherry everywhere in bloom, yellow warbler calling from pin cherry, towhee, other sparrows. Shortcut ends up being longer and more arduous.

#walking #flowerReport

At the crest of the dune, a sand cherry shrub reaches out into the air, having spread to elude the deepening sand. Its blooms are creamy white with a bit of yellow at the center, and the twigs are dark burgundy, smooth and thin and pliant. The smell of the blooms is almost exactly jasmine.

#PNW #Oregon #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Nature #Outdoors

Hiked up Elk Mountain this morning to do a loop hike, returning on the Elk Creek trail. The Elk Mountain trail climbs straight up the mountain, ascending 2000 feet of elevation in the first 1.5 miles. The summit was in a cloud so no views at the top. Still enjoyed it. Was passed by a trail runner who I saw yesterday in the gorge.

View of the Tillamook Forest looking west. Forest covered hills are on both sides of highway 6. Small clouds are above the forest with big clouds in the distance.

View of the Tillamook Forest looking east. Sporadic white and gray clouds are above the trees with blue sky behind them. There is a section of the forest on the right side has been clear cut.

Trail through the forest on an abandoned road bed. Green clover and ferns are on both sides of the trail.

Purple Penstemon davidsonii flowers on a rock ledge on the side of the trail.

Monsterlander

Splendid walk today - 5 miles from Over Haddon, down and along Lathkill Dale, around to Youlgreave for lunch, then back over the hill to Over Haddon. #walking #peakDistrict #landscapePhotography #photography

Screenshot of Ordnance Survey map with a route marked out in blue of a 5 mile circular walk from Over Haddon in the north, through wooded river valley, around to Youlgreave then back over some hills.

Photo of the river Lathkill, approaching the nicest area, where there are a number of small weirs and the water is crystal clear with patches of healthy river plants etc. Our side of the bank is a sloped meadow with lots of buttercups, and the other side is heavily wooded with a mixture of evergreen and deciduous trees.

Duckling swimming through clear water over lots of healthy looking river plants, with ripples emanating in front as it powers along. The duckling is largely brown with pleasant yellowish markings on its face and chest, with some on the sides. Nice brown stripe going from the beak round to the back of the head.

View up the river lathkill near a small weir, where the water drops down over a stone ledge around six inches, with a couple of ducks considering making the jump. The water is very clear and as a result the river looks bright green because there are lots of water plants.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Stuart Bain

Day two at the Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome festival in the Cotswolds. Todays theme was flora and we spotted Green Winged Orchids as well as stunning bluebell woods. #WalkersAreWelcome #Snowshill #Winchcombe #Cotswolds #Orchid #Flora #Walking #Hiking #Architecture

View to the east of Snowshill overlooking barley growing in the farmers field

Snowshill church. Typical Cotswold architecture.

I did a much longer walk than I intended, over 4 hours, so I rightly reward myself with an ice cream from this delightful tea room.

#Walk done.
Proper lovely.
Hope you enjoyed the views too.
Join me again.

#walking #hike

Tea rooms sign in dappled sunlight reads :
Open
Kitnors
Light lunches
Cream teas
Home made cakes
Ice cream

A panoramic view of the bay over the heath. Green hill top in the foreground, the hazy sea and sky beyond. The headland bends round to form the bay.

The path disappears back into the trees, winding above the river. So much garlic! And then we pop back out by the ford we started at.

A path winds through woods, one side the bank is high, the other disappears downwards. The edge is laced with green wild garlic leaves

The river tumbling in a variety of colours under trees

The stream fords the path and we're out in the fields, the bay visible ahead. Rabbits a plenty and sheep sunning themselves.

A view low over the hedges and thistles to the bay. The sea just visible below the headland in the distance

A gate ahead on the shaded path. A wide stream, dotted with stepping stones, crosses the path. Sunlight glares from beyond the gate

The path winds its self on the edge of the tree line looking across the valley. Eventually we find the river again that I started by. Swathes of Ramsons (wild garlic), red campion, hemlock waterdropwart and cows parsley along the way.

Red campion hangs over the river that bends towards French fields, glinting in the sun.

The water of the river is a muc of blues and browns, the path along it edged in sprays of white flowers

Sunlight dancing on water through leaves

I get to the bottom of the track and I've a choice to carry on to the road or take a chance skirting the lower edge of Allerford Woods. I decide to chance it as I think it likely the path to the lower edge would be better walked and more consistent with the map
A short way in I come across this delightful hut that looks out over the fields.
Pit stop two. Twix time.

A view from inside the hut looking through its wooden pillars over the cobbled floor to the wooded path and fields beyond

A thatched roofed shelter, with wood pillars and cobbled floor. It is nestled in the undergrowth

A view through the trees to a blanket of green fields

I thought I might come out by Allerford, but I actually find Holnicote Combe and the wider track that descends it. This is much more pleasant. Lots of dramatic ferns. I love how they pick out the light in their throngs.
I briefly consider carrying on to Bury Castle, but I've spent way too long in the woods so I head down the hill

Large green fern curls up into the sunlight

A fern stretches out, dappled by the sun.

A view up the track. Dappled sun, trees either side

A finger post stands amongst grass and ferns. The labels show "Bury Castle, selworthy" to the right, "the cross" to the left, "selworthy beacon" uphill and "Allerford, Bossington" downhill

I reach Allerford Woods, marked as a plantation on the OS.
I have a vague plan to head straight down towards a well, St Agnes Fountain.

That does not happen. This wood and me are not friends. For a start there are a million paths, all seemingly unused and none that match the OS. Its impossible.
It also feels weird. It's doesn't feel rich like a native woodland. Feels like I'm just walking through an unloved garden.
There's also this weird giant memorial cross.

An imposing cross stands in a glade amongst the trees. Hillside visible beyond.

The tree line. Young trees sprout up from the heath

Because I'm me, I choose not to rejoin the SWC path, but to cross it and follow a track along the hillside towards a carpark at the hilltop.
I am rewarded by a Tree Pipit and offspring. 2 fledglings hopping down the path close ahead of me. And an adult eyeing me from the gorse.

Even though I'm not on the hill top, the view over the bay is still stunning and I am utterly alone.

The grassy track over the hill, sky above .

The grassy track. Looking back over the bay. A tree reaching up.

Because this path is less walked the gorse has encroached, and its mighty prickly through my leggings!

Smatterings of blue Sheeps Bit here and there. The scent up here is astonishing! It's intense and seems to be a mix of many plants. Some gorse, something else I can't identify.

A thin path winds through deep gorse. Clear blue sky above.

I crest the headland and the view is flipping grand!

An expanse of blues.

Below me the SWC Path snakes up the Combe.

The top of the headland above the point sits st the bottom of the picture. The rest is sea and sky. Vast blue. The horizon a deeper blue amid the rest.

Porlock bay. Green fields, grey pebbled beach. Blue sea. The south west coast path visible snaking up the hill side below me.

Pit stop time

I nestle into the rocks and have me babybel.

I'm about an hour in. And I figure I can get to the top point in the next hour, where paths converge and then decide which route back to take.

Me smiling. Rick face behind me. Wind blowing my hair. I'm wearing a blue flowered walking scarf and a green shirt.

Shot of the OS map showing Bossington hill. Sea visible in distance.

As we round the headland looking over Selworthy Sand, the wind coming in from the east hits.
The path is a bit more perilous here, petering out in places, and I notice the few walkers who also ventured to the point from the SWC path, don't carry on round with me.
The edges are strewn with gorgeous thrift and sea campion.
Sea campion is also known as Dead Mans Bells and Witches Thimbles... seeing it grow close to the cliff edge I can kinda guess why.

White sea campion hangs over the cliff. The red sands of the beach below. The blue sea reaching beyond.

My shadow on the cliff edge looking down to rocks in the water below

Looking up the scarp, its unclear where the path goes through the rocks.

Tuffs of bright pink thrift along the path edge. The beach below it. The sea stretching out.

The point is overlooked by this early 1900s coastguard station, now a ruin. And there's some ornate iron works dotted about from when it was in use.
Respect how the victorians insisted on making stuff fancy, even if it's up steep cliff face.

The red and blue stone built ruin. Large empty windows. The sky visible through the roof cavity.

Looking down the length of the point, that juts out over the still blue sea. Tuffs of pink thrift visible between the rocks

A rusted iron pole, with flower shaped detail to it. The headland and sea visible behind.

I cross over the SWC path, as that carries on straight up Hurlstone Combe to the top of the hill, but I want to check out Hurlstone Point.
Banging name by the way. Like some 12 yr old lad named it.
As we near the point a flock of Goldfinches dash up and down the path and a wren tells me boldly to piss off from a gorse bush.
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Hurlstone point juts raggedly above the sea

Foxglove just about to bloom. Large bright pink buds on a thick stem.

And I'm through the trees!
On a path that runs higher and parallel to the SWC path. Get ready for lots of sea view content because every part of this route round the hill was a gem!
There are lots of insects, butterflies, bees. Loads of these little moths, Yellow Speckled, and I noticed the wood sage they like to live near.

A bright yellow moth with brown speckled wings sits stunning it's self on a bramble leaf

A brown fluffy bee hangs upside down getting nectar from a pink Herb Robert flower

A view down the path running along the side of the hill. The headland in the distance. The hillside is lush and green. The sea and sky blue, and running into each other.

A view over Porlock bay, looking over a bramble bush. The green marsh fields and sand visible below. The bay is a wide curve. The sea and sky are bright blue

I have clearly picked a less popular track. Hella steep. But lots of lovely foliage along its edges. Lovely sunny stitchwort. And as I turn back to check where I've come from I catch my first glimpse of a splash of sea through the leaves. Energizing!
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A spray of delicate stitchwort. Its centred yellow, its foliage fine and light green.

Shady tress bend over the path and in a small gap we can glimpse the splash of blue that is the sea.

I start at the National Trust car park at Bossington, which is fairly busy so, me being me, I buck trend and rather than follow the ACTUAL South West Coast path, which skirts the lower edge of the hill, I take a path straight up, that will hopefully break the tree line sooner.

The Horner fords the footpath near the start of the route here. The lane is quite and the trees are doing wonderful things with the sunlight.
My fav Cuckoo's pint is starting to ripen.
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River fording a track, the water in dappled shade, sunlight hitting the grass beyond on the opposite bank

A green cuckoos pint berry, peeping out of its brown sheath. It sits amongst other foliage.

A dappled shady track leading upwards through bowing trees

Looking up to the sky through tangled branches and glowing green leaves

Right mates! Who's up for a mooch round Bossington hill with me

Yesterday I went in search of a sea view, and boy did it deliver.

Bossington to Hurlstone point and back via Allerford wood

6 miles.

Let's go!

View over high heathland to Porlock Bay below. The heath in the fore ground is lush and green. The opposite headland in the distance is wooded and rocky. The sea is a pale blue, with haze fading into the clear blue sky above.

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Made it up to the viewpoint on Larch Mountain for this first time this year. The ascent was just over 4000 feet if elevation over 7 miles and 3 hours. While the snow cooperated, the clouds unfortunately did not. I saw the tip of Mount Hood poking out of the clouds and could barely make out St Helens in the distance. The rest were hiding. The snow has mostly melted with some snow fields above 3500 feet.

The tip of Mount Hood poking out of the clouds. Above the clouds is a mostly blue sky with a few chemtrails.

Larch Mountain viewpoint on a partially cloudy morning. Mount Hood can be seen behind the viewing deck. Blue sky with a few clouds.

Sunrise behind the Columbia River looking between trees. Clearish blue sky above the sunrise.

Mount St Helens can be seen in the distance if you zoom in. Rolling forested hills of the Columbia River Gorge are beneath the clouds and blue sky.

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It's been a glorious day for a hike. It was supposed to be 8 miles but turned into almost 12. The mountain in the last pic 8s the one we walked to the top of 😊
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Two hills form a V shaped valley with the sides covered in green shrubs and bushes. The sky above is blue and the foreground is a pond of muddy brown water with a small patch of sky reflected in it.

The view from the top of a mountain looking down at a valley below, where a village stretches out into the distance. The hills either side are green and covered in grass and fir trees, and the sky above is blue.

A tall waterfall tumbles over a rocky cliff. The sky above is blue and there are large rocks in the foreground. There are lots of green shrubs growing through the rocks on the cliffs and foreground

A large green field covered with yellow buttercups. There are a few terraced houses in sight on the left of the photo, and the roof of a tall building just visible on the right.
In the background is a mountain range, and one of them stands out, stretching up to a blue sky. The lower half of the mountain is covered in fir trees.

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Darby Creek Valley Park, PA

It’s been 9 days since the last time I fly fished 🤔

Finishing up a busy week with quiet two hours on Friday evening, which is extremely important for me 😊

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