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The forecast was absolutely terrible so I wasn't sure we would
make it all the way, and we didn't once again! We had nine
optimistic explorers: Abbie, Alexandria, Allan, Amy, Carol-Anne,
Chloe, Jack, Lucy and Sarah, with four helpers: Chris, John
Evans, Philippa and Sandra plus Lady as the expedition dog.
We managed fine along the open track and had a bit of a struggle
getting up to the top of the first hill, where we stopped
for a break. At this point everyone was in pretty good order:
it wasn't too far to the waterfall, and we even got close
enough to see it but then the wind got up and it started raining
and we turned back rather than get stuck on the high ground
in bad weather.
We soon found the path and went back down to the old power
station and we had a look at this before moving across some
boggy ground upstream to the old pasture. Everybody stopped
at a cleft ash tree by the stream and several explorers made
an examination of its hollow trunk.
We stayed here until the midges started to make themselves
felt and then returned to the path and back to the cars.
John
Dye
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