The Roaches and Hen Cloud

As promised another view of The Roaches. Unfortunately, the light wasn't as spectacular as it was on Sunday evening, a bit hazy and murky. I decided I'd walk one of the classic figure of eight walks up over and around these rocks.

It's about a 4 hour walk but always takes me longer as I take far too many photos. And today I was completely side-tracked by a grasshopper before I'd even got to the top of the ridge! It was crawling/climbing over the gritstone rather than hopping, which I thought was quite appropriate as it's such a well known area for climbers.

The hill mirrored in the background is known as Hen Cloud.

Another great part of the walk is visiting a place called Lud's Church. It's not actually a church but a huge chasm in the rocks. When you first walk into it the temperature drops and you feel like you're in a cave. It's quite atmospheric and there is quite a bit of mythology surrounding it too.

I saw quite a lot of funghi in the woodland, but my knee needs to get a little better to spend time low down on the ground taking shots!!

I got the last report from my other half this evening about his walk along Hadrian's Wall. All done and he's very pleased! I can see he'll be planning his next one soon.... And his feet were getting better after buying liner socks which helped with the blisters!