No firing in August so time to visit places less frequented. Holming Beam was busy with Landmark Trust workers making targets for soldiers to shoot at. Down to the leat take off, the old hut still looking as sad as ever and the bridge getting dangerously rotten. Then the boggy crossing to where the stile used to be, but no, some brainbox decided to put it 50 yds to the left instead of where the track up to Beardown Tors starts. A nice bimble past and over the various tors and then down to Foxholes for a cuppa. Crow Tor next still looking as if it is slowly sliding down the hill. Then quite a good path to Rough Tor (pronounced router, which to me is a tool for moulding wood). Fur Tor was just showing its head over the peatlands of Tavy Head like a little hut. A few boggy holes on the way to Devils Tor ending up a little south of Beardown Man. The hardest going of the day next, from there to Lydford Tor, but then it was downhill and along a newly discovered path to the bridge. Only the nasty little ascent to the car park all newly flattened by diggers - but no drier!
A goodly walk for a clear day with a cooling breeze.Mike