A beautiful warm spring day with no wind and dry under foot and perfect conditions for a Dartmoor walk. We left Four Winds and took the track which goes up to Little Mis Tor and then on to Great Mis Tor - you can probably see more Tors from here than anywhere else on the moor.
To our left the ridge of Staple Tors and Roos Tor
Spectacular views from Great Mis Tor..........
Towards Great Links Tor in the north....
....and Sharpitor, Leather Tor and King Tor in the south...
....towards White Tor with Gibbet hill behind.
Then along the ridge towards North Hessary Tor.
Looking back to Great Mis Tor with White Tor to the left and futher back.
Down to Foggintor quarry where some of us had absailed before. Today it was the turn of young trainee soldiers - seemed like we were in the middle of a battle as they ran past.....
Then they absailed down into the quarry much, much faster than I ever did.
One poor lad didn't perform as well as he should so as a punishment he was made to lie in the pool of water and crawl out across the mud!
Then they ran through the quarry this time climbing up on the other side to repeat the whole exercise again.
Next we walked across to the old railway track and over to King Tor then down to the stream and back to the cars for lunch in the Dartmoor Inn at Merrivale.
On the walk today Terry, Roger, Paul, Charlie, Brian and Bud in the pub.
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