HHH 14 -16

Sun 19th Jul 2020

Walk Details:

Event Details Updated
If you're interested in taking part in this walk please email walks.kent@ldwa.org.uk. If this event is oversubscribed and subject to availability of additional leaders it may be possible to accommodate extra groups of 6 on the same route at alternate starting points at Toys Hill and/or Sevenoaks Weald. Please bring a picnic as the pub situation remains uncertain. If you're also interested in the Canterbury Ring next week (26 July) please express a 1st & 2nd choice so that available slots can be allocated equitably.
Event Type
Group Walk
Region
Southern England
Local Group
Kent
Distance
23ml.
Start Time
09.00
Route
Stubbs Wood c.p. Goathurst Common
General Notes
Pub lunch stop
Start and Finish

Entry Details:

Cost

Walk Report

An excuse to test parts of a potential 100 route The last hurrah before lockdown had 5, the hurrah we're back had 5 after a last minute Covid track & trace withdrawal. From Goathurst Common the “little“ dipper between Ide Hill & Toys Hill was met with fresh legs rather than 80-90 miles fatigue if 100eers come this way. Collecting No5, who'd left it too late to leave home to arrive in time, at Toys Hill village hall it was NT paths rather than PRoWs across and beyond Toys Hill hill heading north. A drinks pause at Brasted church brought on the drizzle. The optimistic men were proved wrong by the waterproof donning ladies as it lasted and heavied for an hour and more before easing and brightening through the afternoon. A climb up the North Downs scarp could be called sadistic with 3 miles to go and today the top field exit proved elusive in long grass. Lunch on the grass in front of potential HQ Darwin Academy was a wet bottom avoiding standing affair. Turnings invented and missed added a bit back off the Downs with tarmac hard to avoid but rewarded by welcome tea & coffee at the welcoming White Horse in Sundridge. The other 100 route was coincidentally reversed a while then nearly back at the start a turn east before regaining the Greensand Way west to east. At Sevenoaks Weald church a turn for home followed a detour into the village for their hall before more Greensand Way led west to cars.

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