Carlisle & District Rambling & Fellwalking Club
Walk & Event Reports
Wednesday 29th June 2016
Canonbie - The Debatable Land
7.5 Miles Grade 4
Leader: Ken Halliday
Report by Ken Halliday
Report by Ken 'Noah' Halliday
Sorry, no pics – official walk photographer drowned in the first mile
Ten intrepid walkers set out from Canonbie Hall in a steady drizzle, confident that it wouldn't last. And indeed it did not – the intensity of precipitation built up to a steady downpour. This in no way reduced the pleasure of struggling along narrow fishermen's paths, battling through thickets of Japanese knotweed, trauchling over glaury fields, falling off rickety, inadequate bridges over ditches, avoiding amorous bulls, etc., etc.
These trivial inconveniences were more than offset (?) by the experience of having swallows and martins flying at zero feet among us, and most notably by the great pleasure of watching, at very close range, a pair of baby roe deer cavorting in a field of long grass while their mother, seen earlier with them, hid safely out of sight.
The rain had practically stopped by the time we got back to the cars, and the teas in Canonbie Kirk were well up to the usual standard, as was the warm welcome we received.
Ah well, only another thirty-nine days and nights and dry land will return! Please come again to sunny Canonbie.
PS Hope the nettle rash, thistle pricks and bramble scratches clear up soon, Graham.
Ken
