Leaving home in heavy mist I was expecting a challenging and limited visibility route finding walk ahead of today! However, to my joy, arriving at the RV, The Warren House Inn, the sky had cleared, it was pretty warm too, so really good to go for a rare dry walk.
From the main road we cut up to what I assumed to be an old mining gert before turning right to follow the path running parallel to Hurston Ridge and onto and across part of Chagford Common. This eventually took us to the edge of Fernworthy Forrest and the road surrounding most of Fernworthy Reservoir.
On the adjacent green overlooking the water, there were some convenient picnic benches that fitted the bill for our morning cuppa and a birdsong serenade, plus, a piece of birthday cake and a homemade scone kindly supplied by two of our group – very tasty indeed!
Calories loaded, drinks drunk, we picked up the path surrounding the reservoir, noting that there was no water over flow down the dam face which was a visual shame. However, we carried our disappointment with us and followed the path until the road again, before turning right and ever upward into the forest, passing the ‘rearranged’ (by past Victorians) stone row along the way.
Soon we were back out onto open moorland again, and a view that would do justice to an African Savanna, only the lions were missing thankfully!
Now keeping to a well-trodden path we could see on the horizon the Cairn on Water Hill, our marker that was to lead us back down to the Warren House Inn and some well deserved liquid and solid nourishment.
Charlie