Carding Mill Valley and the Long Mynd

[cmcmck]

We've been away for a few days for the first time in over two years.

We stayed in Church Stretton which is a small town among the south Shropshire hills.

On our first day, we headed up into the hills via Carding Mill Valley.

Church Stretton is surrounded by the Shropshire Hills on all sides. The path into the hills.This is the easy bit. It gets interesting further up- experienced walker territory:



That's a bullfinch- shame I didn't have a zoom lens:



Onward and upward:



And into the rocky tops:



And you begin to climb up though the rocks. Unfortunately, the National Trust give information that this is 'easy' walking which can mislead the inexperienced- it certainly isn't 'easy' walking! You need the boots and the walking kit and you need to know what you are doing!



Looking back down the climb towards Church Stretton:



And we followed the stream  up:



Another shot looking back down the ways. We'd been rock climbing for a time when we reached this spot:



We reached the waterfall at Lightspout.



And at this point it gets to real rock climbing up the side of the fall to the higher ground on the Long Myynd:



A view from the top of the rock climb:



The view from the top of the Long Mynd:



More from the tops later

Comments

[vriddy]

It doesn't look super easy but what a lovely path!!

[cmcmck]

It's hard work and you need to have the experience, but it's well worth the effort.