Good Friday 6th April Hen Tor

Well it is a good day - I am just getting over a very nasty cold, I don't currently have an infected finger and I don't have any back ache!  Furthermore, the sun is shining and the strong cold wind of yesterday has eased.

So off to the car park by Gutter Tor and around the track towards Ditsworthy Warren House - with Hen Tor, my first Tor of the day in the distance,

Down to the ford, which with the lack of rain was very easy to cross today...

Over the completely dried out leat.  With the lack of rain the moor is exceptionally dry.  Of course the boggy bits are always wet even in drought conditions but not so long ago in January the ground was so wet it made the going hard - but not today.

 ...and up the hill to Hen Tor Brook - looking over Hentor Meadow towards Hen Tor.

Soon around the side and back of Hen Tor (94)

Looking down and back to Ditsworthy Warren house, Gutter Tor, Sheeps Tor and Sharpitor in the distance.

Then to try and find Little Hen Tor (95).  This is the spot but nothing looking like a tor - just a scattering of large rocks.

Over then to the lovely little waterfall on Shavercombe  Brook...

...and coming out of the valley the view across to  Drizzlecombe with the fourteen foot tall Menhir clearly in view.

Just to the left of the valley is is Shaverocmbe Tor (96)...

...looking back across to Shavercombe Tor.

Next over the side of the hill to Deadmans Bottom.  Apparently the dead man found here was removed over 200 years ago! The valley has been scarred and deepened by tin miners.

The Langcombe Brook at the bottom of the valley.

A short  walk up the hill to Little Gnats Head (97).  Lower Hartor Tor and Higher Hartor Tor in the distance.

Just below this is Calveslake Tor (98) with Evil Combe in the background.  Doesn't seem a bad place to me but I don't think you want to go through the boggy bit at the bottom!

From Calveslake Tor to Lower Hartor Tor.

Down to and across the River Plym

Lower Hartor Tor (99)...

 ...and up to Higher Hartor Tor (100)...

...with the Dartmoor ponies on top.

The Eylesbarrow track back to the car park.

Finally on private land just off Burcombe lane is Nat Tor (101).

With the lack of rain the moor is exceptionally dry.  Of course the boggy bits are always wet even in drought conditions.  Not so long ago in January the ground was so wet it made the going hard but not today.