Time - 4hrs ish with lunch & pub stop
Distance - 8 miles ish
Conditions - Cloudy, some sun, breezy, very quick shower.
For a Sunday bimble this wasnt half bad. A nice meander up Longridge Fell with 8 miles of varying countryside to keep me entertained. Brill stuff! The set of pictures I took didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped so I had a play with a few and still its a nice record of a lovely day.
About to set off from the car park
First part of the walk through a gloomy forested area. Nicely starting to climb towards the top.
At the beginning of the heather carpet that sweeps over the summit of the fell and aparently Longridge Fell boasts the highest treeline in the UK with trees almost all the way to the summit.
Unfortunately the views over the surrounding landscape was a bit obscured. Even waiting 15 mins or so didnt provide better results so onwards and upwards.
It was remarkable how green the pastures were and very pleasant to sit and take in the sights on offer today even though seeing further than the valley below was all that was going to be presented, shame!
The trig, prominent in its stature and very worthy of its place at the top of an interesting and pretty fell.
Probably my best picture of the day and as I've posted before, I don't do pictures of beasties and I don't do pictures of flowers so this was indeed a fluke but nice all the same.
Lunch stop on the way back down was an impressive view of Pendle Hill although most views of this baby are impressive. Its still one of my fav local hills.
Treeeemendous part 2.
Back on low ground the last part of the walk took in the impressive Stonyhurst College and it truely was a magnificent building. Gorgeous architecture.
The final part of the walk, down along the river.
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