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 Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: Afternoon stroll (warning lots of pictures!) |
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After a miserable morning here it brightened up around lunchtime, this is the view from my doorstep, stick DE4 4FF into multimap and the circle is at the spot I took this from!
I had to go up to my parents to get my old car back to use while the Grand Vitara is being converted to Veg Oil, they live in the houses just below the skyline on the left edge of this photo. Nice day so I decided to go via that hill with the TV mast on.
A couple of hundred yards and I'm out of the village and in England's green and pleasant land.
where I come across the mother and baby club:
A mile or so further on and I've done about 2/3 of the horizontal distance to the TV mast but only about 1/3 of the vertical distance, the going gets steep!
About 2/3 the way to the top and it is rather hazy looking back to where I started from.
The gorse is still flowering nicely though
Nearly at the top and it looks like some muppet from the council's H&S team has decided open country is too dangerous so they better fence off the drop.
Anyway the view from the top was pretty good, first looking East, then looking west, on a clear day to the west you can see as far as the Wrekin on the Welsh borders but not today!
That is Carsington Reservoir glinting in the distance.
The path heads down through the woods now
I wish I could think of a way of retrieving this fallen Birch tree to feed to the Rayburn! 
A bit further on and there is the first bit of fungus I've found today
I love the rather magical effects a low winter sun can have on the woods.
Going a bit further and in this bit of the wood the sun is about to set even though it is only just 2 in the afternoon. 
Next the path takes me to a spot any rock climbers amongst you will know or have heard of, Black Rocks
That sticking out bit is known as Big Finger, easy to see how it got its name! Here it points out to the west 
The graffiti you can see carved into the rock is everywhere on top of the outcrop and ranges from present day to the mid 19th Century and in places runs to poetry!
Heading down I take one of the more entertaining routes and have a bit of play bouldering
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Then its down past a beech tree that always puts on a nice display of autumn colour
Then its a quick look back at the rocks before walking a couple of hundred yards up the road to mum and dad's
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Lloyd
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like you had a great day, Dtalbot!...Nice pics....Did you identify the fungus?
I used to live very near the Wrekin pre divorce you know!...Used to walk the dogs up it.  |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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What a wonderful scenic walk - thanks for allowing us to come along.
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kaz
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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That's lovely countryside on your doorstep
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Jake
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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great photos you can not to far Middleton rec cricket and football ground.
played crickrt there for 15 years I also work on Tarmac Dene plus all the other quarries in the area |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Gorgeous pics, I enjoyed your walk very much!!
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dtalbot
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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Am looking for my fungus book to ID it now!!!
The walk is half of my favorite walk which takes me round the head of the valley Wirksworth is the bottom of. Town is about 350ft about sea level, the hills top 1000ft within about a mile east and west (well 998 at the trig pillar to the east I went via on this wallk) with a saddle at the valley head at about 750ft, makes a very nice horse shoe walk!
I'll photograph the other half for you soon!
Will do some better piccies of this one as well, I only took the Ixus with me as the 10D dSLR needs its batteries charged!
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dtalbot
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Jake wrote: | great photos you can not to far Middleton rec cricket and football ground.
played crickrt there for 15 years I also work on Tarmac Dene plus all the other quarries in the area |
Took some doing to hide Dean behind big finger in one of those piccies! Some of the ones I didn't post probably have the rec on them! |
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dtalbot
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| Flicking through my field guide there are quite a few that look similar. It was in dampish mixed woodland, growing round a birch tree and had quite widley spaced white gills. Bright ideas anyone, I can I.D Ceps, puffballs, field mushrooms and a fair few boletus but steer clear of most of gilled species! |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Great piccies DT
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| dtalbot wrote: | | Flicking through my field guide there are quite a few that look similar. It was in dampish mixed woodland, growing round a birch tree and had quite widley spaced white gills. Bright ideas anyone, I can I.D Ceps, puffballs, field mushrooms and a fair few boletus but steer clear of most of gilled species! |
For a while, I wondered about honey fungus or more likely a boletus, but the pics don't give away much about size, so only guessing and probably badly at that.
I'll go check Roger Phillips' Wild Food......Be right back....... |
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dtalbot
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| They were gilled so not a boletus, I was wondering about honey fungus as well but can't find any piccies of the gill patterns |
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dtalbot
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Lloyd wrote: | Looks like you had a great day, Dtalbot!...Nice pics....Did you identify the fungus?
I used to live very near the Wrekin pre divorce you know!...Used to walk the dogs up it. |
When they do those beacon chains round the country the Wrekin usually triggers the beacon on Alport Heights (or vice versa) which is the next big hilltop down the valley a mile or two south of this top. |
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thanks for that i needed the excercise 
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