Wednesday 7th August Hare Tor

Another perfect day for walking on the moor and a good group assembled at Lane End.  Ger Tor was our first destination.

Up to the leat.

The view back to White Tor.

At Ger Tor.

Great Mis Tor in the distance.

A lady sitting on the tor finds an empty flare case, talks about it and picks it up - what about all those warning signs telling you not to do that.

The view across to Hare Tor, Sharp Tor and Great Links Tor.

We loop around to Tavy Cleave Tors...

...and Jon of course climbs up to the top!

Then a slightly indirect route across to Hare Tor where we met Peter, a very nice young man on holiday from the Netherlands who offered us all a chocolate biscuit. We stopped for a while to enjoy the fantastic views in every direction.

Sharp Tor and Great Links.

Fur Tor and the upper Tavy valley.

 Doe Tor and Brat Tor.

Back to Ger Tor.

Eventually down to Sharp Tor past the cairn and a view back to Hare Tor.

Hare Tor from Sharp Tor.

Gently down to the Willsworthy firing range.

Past the rifle range and...

...back to the leat.

With a heron nearby after the abundance of fish in the leat and these two ducklings.

On to the Mary Tavy Inn which served  excellent food.

With Sue, Keith, Helen, Ian, Jon and Tom

Tuesday 1st January Staple Tors

 
It finally stopped raining and the sun came out - if only we could have a little bit more of this!  A gentle walk from Pork Hill Car Park and up to Little Staple Tor.  As can be seen the ground is totally saturated.

Across to Pew Tor from Middle Staple Tor...

...Great Mis Tor ...

 On to Great Staple Tor....

...and the view over to Brent Tor and Peter Tavy.

Next to Roos Tor with Great Links Tor in the far distance

Looking back to Great Staple Tor....

....where you can just get a glimpse of Fur Tor nearly five miles away

 Great Mis Tor.

Then across towards Cox Tor and first over to Little Cox Tor before...

...going to the edge of Cox Tor....

....and the view back down to the car park.

Friday 31st August Fur Tor

A superb day for walking on Dartmoor, clear views for miles, sunshine, not too hot and a cooling breeze.

From High Down up past Arms Tor on the left.

The view back down....

...past Great Links Tor and...

...Bleak House with...

...Green Tor ahead of us.

Over Amicombe Hill and Great Kneeset ahead up a steep climb.

On the way up the view up the West Okement valley.

Great Kneeset (293) and the view north towards the West Okement valley and High Willhayes...

...and south towards Fur Tor and Little Kneeset

There is a way across here somewhere.

Little Kneeset (294) not much of a tor at all - with Fur Tor in the distance.

There are more significant granite outcrops on the northern side of the Little Kneeset...

...and also on the southern side.













Fur Tor - even steeper than it looks...

...nearly there

Fur Tor (295) known a the 'Queen of Tors' and probably the most remote tor on Dartmoor.  Remote not just because of the remote location, the difficult terrain to get there but also because it is the one furthest from any road. A variety of granite stacks on top of this steep hill.

Superb views in all directions...

...towards Great Mis Tor

...Hare Tor and Sharp Tor

...Great Links Tor

It might be really remote but we didn't have it all to ourselves as another couple of walkers came past.

Back down to cross Cut Combe Water and Amicombe Brook and back up Amicombe Hill towards Green Tor on the right and Great Links Tor and Higher and Lower Dunna Goat.

The final leg on the way down with Sharp and Hare Tors on our left.

A much longer walk than usual taking just over six and half hours and made much easier being accompanied by my good friend Terry.

Just 12 more tors left to visit!