Stoneymollen Sun 10th Dec

With high winds and rain forecast lazyness and common sense prevailed and after a look out the window confirmed the weather gave up the usual early rise for a well deserved lie in. So it meant another run in the dark, this time leaving after 8 for an anticlockwise loop up the Stoneymollen.

Once off the road and onto the path the headtorch went on to navigate the slippery rocks on the way up. Traverse along the ridge hard work in the mud so took it nice and steady avoiding the sheep and startled by a bird taking off beside my feet. High winds once out from behind the trees so head down and plod on through the bomb crater past the trig point and down through the swamp. The worst part is just before the climb up to the fort as it is trackless and crossed by several ditches which I was lucky enough to avoid.

Slow jog down, back along to the radiomast and then its onto the farm track, hard work done apart from the small climbs up to the road in front of the cemetry.