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| Today's walking team |
Ever since our grandson Charlie moved to South Devon he has loved walking on nearby Dartmoor so we discussed with him the possibility of a walking challenge - The Two Moors Way. For Christmas he had a number of walking related items including a complete set of laminated walk cards with a map of the route. We have read the guides and planned each day's walk with set down and pick up points for each day and we know there will be "guest" walkers joining Mary, Charlie and Tom for each leg.
At 9.00 am we are ready in Ivybridge for the off and a quick call into the information centre to get Charlie's notebook stamped at the official start. Photographs taken the first team set off. Charlie and Tom, Mary, Clare and Deborah will walk the first day. Ian will accompany them for the first few miles then return to Ivybridge to meet them later in the day when he will pick them up at Scorriton - thirteen miles away.
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| Having left Ivybridge the walkers head off up onto Dartmoor |
This is one of the most demanding legs with a climb out of Ivybridge onto the edge of the moor, followed by the long incline of a disused tramway line, the old Redline Railway is used to gain height and to cross open, barren and lonely moorland. The route then crosses the upper River Avon by a clapper bridge before further unmarked walking and eventually the descent to Scorriton.
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| The last stretch off the moor and into Scorriton |
Granddad has walked from Scorriton, where the car awaits and the end of Day 1 and 13 miles completed.
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