Lime Blast » Hike http://limeblast.co.uk The virtual home of Web developer Daniel Hollands, the place to be if you're looking for articles and tutorials (and rants) on all aspects of the World Wide Web. Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:13:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 All Around the Wrekin (Photolog) /2013/06/all-around-the-wrekin-photolog/ /2013/06/all-around-the-wrekin-photolog/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:25:10 +0000 /?p=1078 ]]> Although the vast majority of the content on this blog is web-related, from time to time I have something which I want to share that isn’t related to the web, and this just happens to be one of them posts. This is the journal of an adventure that my friend Mari and I went on All Around the Wrekin:

Our Map for the trip

First off, here is the route we took (recorded via the Endomondo app on my phone). It says just over 12 miles on the stats for the walk, but according to the guide we were using, it should have been 8.5 miles – so I’m not sure which one is correct, all I do know is that, towards the end, it became a lot of hard work.

For the most part, it was what you would have expected, lots and follow-this-path-through-the-woods…

Where does a bear shit?

…but after about an hour we came across our first cool find, an abandoned house:

Abandoned building

We have no idea when it was built, or why, or equally why it was no longer being used, but it was very cool nonetheless:

Just around the corner from this was our second cool discovery:

Wall-o-Slate

So needless to say, we both found ourselves a little souvenir:

Coaster

…and I got to laugh at Mari trying to get back down:

After a couple more hours we found ourselves, after a near vertical climb, at the top of the Wrekin, which I’m happy to report had an amazing view:

Upon our descent down the other side, I discovered that the Wrekin was an ancient hillfort, which I remembered learning about in school, but had never been to one:

Wrekin Hillfort

The trip had a couple more surprises for us, such as The Halfway House, a house/cafe which was literally half-way up the hill, and provided some much needed sustenance (coffee and ice cream), and couple of private fishing reservoirs:

Private fishing

Private fishing

…and a disused quarry:

Quarry

Stone

…but for me, I think the best bit was finding the abandoned house :D

Although I had a lot of fun on the hike, and would be very keen on doing another one like it again soon, I think that I’ll have a bit more forward thinking, and be sure to wear some better shoes!

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