21st: New Mills walk
On Sunday 21st March, after a couple of changes to this walk (the
date and also the leader), 26 of us met at New Mills station and Chris H
led us on a walk over to Mellor church. Near the start, a few of us
were discussing my recent blog and Chris said that it was probably him
that kept losing walkers (see "Notes from the Archives" 15th March for
details). This did not bode well but undaunted we carried on, marvelling
at the wonderful weather following the previous day of cold, rain and
gloom.
When we had climbed the first hill, we sat for a tea/coffee stop
and I sent the walks report to Joan (walks secretary) who was at home
waiting to update her statistics. Almost immediately three new people
left the walk and returned to their car - I am not sure why this was,
although I know that they had been hoping to go to Youlgreave which was
the original destination on the printed programme and they had not seen
the change on the website.
So I sent another text to update Joan - the numbers were down to
23. We carried on but Sue & Pete announced that they would not be
staying for the whole walk due to family committments but they would
stay until Mellor church. I am sorry to report that they did not even
make it that far - after a while Pete's map came out and they took a
short cut back to their car. We carried on and had lunch at Mellor
church where I sent a further report to Joan back at base.
Down at the Roman Lakes cafe, Campbell called for an ice-cream stop and that was very welcome.
Thankfully we suffered no further losses and 21 of us made it back
to tthe cars after a very nice sunny day, not too much mud and plenty of
good views.
Thankyou Chris for an enjoyable walk
your reporter today was Sue T
