Chrome Hill

Another beautiful day, so more hills to climb.  After a leisurely breakfast, we headed out the front door, up Hitter Hill again, where we looked over to Parkhouse Hill and Chrome Hill, and headed towards them. As was the case yesterday, neither are very high, but both are steep climbs. We got up to the top of Parkhouse Hill quite quickly, and admired the fabulous views. The descent was much more of a challenge, and not for vertigo sufferers!  I made it with some encouragement from TT, and a bit of scrambling. I couldn’t look too far down or I wouldn’t have made it. I was relieved to get past the tricky bits, reflecting on how much worse it would be in wet or wintry conditions.

We had hardly caught our breath when we were already on the ascent of Chrome Hill, which was much more straightforward in both directions. We continued on our walk, choosing to omit a third hill as it was another straight up a very ruttedroute. Instead we enjoyed a much more sedate route round the hill, ending up in the village of Hollingsclough, where there was a fabulous tea room. We had been planning on having some lunch back at home, but this was too good an opportunity to pass by, and our lunches were delicious. We chatted to the local ladies who ran it, one of which had a great love of Scotland having lived in Aberdeenshire for many years.

We continued our route back the cottage, then continued our walk to the next village of Longnor, where we had a very welcome pint in the sunshine, before coming back home via other village to avoid a field of cows. All in all, a great day’s walking.

TT had volunteered to cook, and he made a very nice prawn curry whilst I explored our tiny village (which didn’t take me long). I heard from BB. He had survived last night’s post-rugby socialising, but was rather the worse for wear!

This is Chrome Hill, taken from Parkhouse Hill. I’m not quite sure how I managed to take this. The second extra shows Parkhouse Hill, which looks like a sharks fin. The first extra is also Parkhouse, taken from the top of Chrome Hill.