White Nancy

A revisit of White Nancy.

White Nancy elevation

White Nancy route

Starting from Tegg's Nose...

Sunrise from Tegg's Nose car park

Plume of smoke

Sun reflecting in Teggsnose reservoir

Hungry, hungry sheep

Hog Low Pike

An entirely new route for us, up near Haslingden (a few miles south of Accrington, but who are they? Exactly!) Taking in some of the Rossendale Way and Hog Low Pike. It's called a pike, but it's not much more than a pimple on the moors.

Even though it's been quite dry, many parts were extremely sodden and muddy, and some of it was more like a ploughed field than a path. A route only to be taken in extreme drought conditions.

The instructions in the book were also useless and some of the footpaths we tried to take have 'mysteriously' disappeared near farms. Only met two couples on the way round, they were both lost as well.

Hog Low Pike elevation

Hog Low Pike route

Trying out our new Sigma 35mm f1.4 lens, but the weather was extremely dull, misty and hazy until lunchtime.

Rossendale Way

Ruined house

Window

Gill

More ruined buildings

Rossendale Way sign in forest

Fog on spider web

Stream in forest

Another nice sign at the turning for Hog Low Pike

Mix of moss, heather and ferns in some more ruins

 While being lost a newt suddenly appeared on a stone. Very small, about an inch, and I had the wrong lens on so the photo doesn't show much. May be Smooth or Palmate Newt.

World's worst photo of a newt (it got better)

Isolated Trees

Calf Hey Reservoir

Pumping gear by Calf Hey

Gill nearing the end of the walk

Anglezarke

What a day. Major accident on the M61 on the way there (at the first junction) so we had to detour round that. Then got lost on the way to Anglezarke (why don't people sign post road properly?) Then got lost around the reservoir. Then got lost in the maze that's Nab Wood, took a wrong turning in Lower Healy Wood and had to wade through mud and almost impenetrable undergrowth on the "footpath". Got lost in a soggy cow field and then finally found the road and got back to the car park. All this with a GPS and a guide book. Hopeless!

Anglezarke route

Juvenile Black-headed Gull

Juvenile Black-headed Gull

Hoverfly

Hoverfly

Gill and Tree

Gill and Tree

Anglezarke Reservoir

Hoverfly

Hoverfly

Slope of Yarrow Reservoir

Fungi