Tuesday 17th January 2012 Grimspound

A proper winter's day for a change, with heavy frost in places and making it firm under foot again with a misty, moody moor ahead of us.

Past some of the remaining posts erected during the second world war to prevent German gliders from landing.

 

On to the memorial dedicated to the Royal Air Force bomber which crashed here in 1941....

 

...where we were joined by a group of walkers from Exmouth - you come out here to get away from it all and this happens!

Next up to Broad Barrow on  Hameldown  and time for a short break and a team photo.

A short walk then to Hameldown Tor (28)...

...with a view across to Hookney Tor (29) and Grimspound in the valley below...

...and down to Grimspound a Bronze Age settlement - one of the 24 hut circles














Then up to Hookney Tor (30)...

...where Charlie pointed out there is a face in somewhere in those rocks.














Across to Shapley Tor (31), which is not so much of a tor as a few outcrops of rocks.

With the car park in sight the sun at last started to break through.

A short drive to the Warren House Inn for lunch.  On today's walk Carol, Roger, Amber, Colin, Rosemary, Terry, Linda and Charlie.