12.4 miles Total Ascent 388m Time 3:32:18 walking, 20 mins resting.
Sun, snow, blue then grey foreboding skies, but no rain. Another interesting walk. It was nice to expand beyond Mabie. I have no idea why I got shin splints at the beginning….and why they eased off when I re-laced one boot. Spooky.
This walk took us up through Shambellie wood and on to Mabie Forest via Trostan wood. You don’t realise how steep the climb out of Shambellie is until walking back down on the way back. If you look in the picture gallery you will see me standing next to the “killer climb” sign. But we didn’t go that way. At Mabie we took in the Brown walk around Craigbill hill, with a pause for sandwiches and photos at the tree with seats.
The after walk refreshments were certainly of high quality, except the butter was too hard. There are photos from the walk here.
