Winter walking on the moors

The "feel" of winter on the moors

Nothing in the way of snow however walking Dartmoor in the winter can be interesting with changeable weather. Photos from a recent walk on the south east of the moors. [...]

A dry year so far on Dartmoor

Exposed hut circle in the Avon reservoir May 2011

Photos of the Avon reservoir and area on June 1 2011 with low water due to low rainfall which has exposed an ancient hut circle taken on an evening walk on Dartmoor [...]

Walking towards the centre of southern Dartmoor

On Sandy Way heading to Aune Head

Walking from Vennford reservoir on southern Dartmoor towards the centre of the moor around Redlake and back over Ryder’s Hill in mixed weather conditions [...]

Circular walk from Burrator reservoir – part 2

Part of Down Tor row and Combshead Tor

Part 2 of the walk from Burrator reservoir walking back past tin mining remains and Down Tor bronze age remains [...]

Circular walk from Burrator reservoir – part 1

Crazywell Pool on Dartmoor

First part of a circular walk from Burrator reservoir up the River Meavy and along the Devonport leat to Crazywell Pool [...]

Walking down the River Avon

This continues the blog here of a walk from Shipley Bridge up the Zeal Tor tramway to Western Whitaburrow and back down the Avon to the car.  The view above is from Petre’s Cross at Western Whitaburrow looking towards the barrow at Eastern Whitaburrow (both can have White Barrow in place [...]

The strange beauty of remote landscapes

I guess I was in a thoughtful mood while I was out today and the title of this occurred to me while I was driving up to the moors. We have had a few frosty mornings over the past few days (temperatures around -3 deg C) but this was the first [...]

Some evening light on the eastern edge of the moor

Each year the fact that the sun sets earlier while it is still summer takes me by surprise – I should have learnt by now.  Sunset is now around 20:30 with dusk about 21:00 so walking in the evening will require torches soon (& I’ll stop taking the camera).  With the light the [...]

Dartmoor at last

When I decided to start this blog I was fairly sure I would have to try and fit in a few postings that were not about Dartmoor to allow some slight balance.  It saddens me that this is really only the second post on what is my favourite area of the West Country.

I [...]