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The Walk that shouldn't have been arduous but it went on for a bit.

I think the walk was more challenging than it should of been because of Covid.

Let me expalin.

I had planned the above image, planned route, timings and a place to park up. However on my final approach I was confronted by a sequence of signs stating "no access, no parking" and no turning. Along with the official No Entry sign. Im a good boy me, so I turned around. I headed back to a place that I knew I could definately park and then walk to the chosen location. The re routing ended up adding a grand total of about 3 to 4 miles of walking. Up and down hills, across fields, up gullies and over rocks. Hard work with a camera bag and tripod slung over your back I can tell you.Once at the location I came across a chap with his daughter. When I'd caught my breath I had a chat with him. I asked him how he amnaged to get here with his young daughter, who incidentally was not equipped at all to walk a 3 or 4 mile route along dodgy uneven ground. " Oh" he replied. " we parked about 20 minutes away" pointing up yonder over a hill. " Nice easy walk"Turns out that the chap was a local. He told me the signs were not really official and "probably put up by the locals because they got fed up in the summer of all the walkers and visitors abandoning their cars"

We can all recollect what happened in Covid period, especially when we was allowed out for a walk. Basically everyone took to the hills. Do you remember the images on TV where folk were queueing up to reach the top of Snowdon?

Understandably land owners, highways departments and residents got quite cheesed off with large numbers of people parking cars on verges, peoples properties and generally just abandoning cars anywhere in any fashion.

I'm therefore convinced that my latest escapade happened because of local residents taking action against such poor consideration of walkers and road users.

Another legacy of Covid.

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