Welcome to Cuddly Koala's Blog

Hello all and welcome to my blog, I am Julie and been hiking since a teenager and on family walks before that. I was once very serious about my walking but life changes and I have been away from the hiking scene for 15 years. In 2011 I restarted the interest and will be sharing my adventures with my companion, Lady, she is a Flat Coated Retriever.

Lady and I will hopefully be hiking in the Peak District, Lakes and Snowdonia.


Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Croft to Croft Hill New via Croft Hill old - 4.1 miles

Todays walk took Lady and I to Croft, one of our local villages.  I left the car at my sisters and walked over the bridge towards the public house, then took the footpath past the church.  Followed this along to the base of the original Croft Hill where I met a local who told me about the walk over the old to the new Croft Hill.  We followed her suggestion and did the full circuit and it was a brilliant 2 hour walk, the views were great dispite the overcast skies.  During the walk we also discovered a nature trail at the base with picnic tables, I should mention there is also picnic tables on the top.  Here are some pics...

One of the views of the working quarry

Looking down towards old Croft Hill from the new.


Closeup of the quarry

A view of the nature reserve

Nature reserve

Nature reserve board walk

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