A weekend run during the C-19 shutdown.
Route: Leaving the car for the first time at the new hand-gate midway between the racecourse and the usual parking place and ascending the wide path slowly uphill to a hand-gate to the right. Through this and to the start of the hidden valley path but, again, mistaking the route which turned out to be a little further south, more uphill and much more churned up than we remembered it. After 200 metres of more level and grassy going, and just before a descent, turning left on a faint wider path to the day's target which proved, disappointingly, merely to be a dry pond (with lots of temptingly workable damp clay). Then heading for the gate in the summit wall on fair ground, though all paths giving out. Through the gate, turning left to the trig point, then left down the hill descending parallel to the wall to the east but, just before the path zigzags up a short scree slope, bending right to follow a green track down a shallow valley. Crossing the main racecourse-to-Dave’s-Cairn path and continuing to turn right on a very clear section of the trippy path and following this to the end. Then left and descending and swinging back uphill to the start.Weather: high cloud.
Pub? (C-19) A bottle of Greene King Abbot Ale shared in the summer house.
