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| Yes Tor |
This was going to be a 12km ramble, taking in new tors and revisits around the Roof of Devon, the highest land south of Black Mountain (703m) near the Wales/England border. It was forecast to be a lovely, sunny day and indeed it was, so where better to be than on Dartmoor?
Across the Moor Brook, we now had to endure the steep ascent up to West Mill Tor, trying to avoid the clitter on what was, fortunately, quite a short climb. Another fantastic tor this, and I, as usual, was delighted to be revisiting.
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| West Mill Tor |
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| West Mill Tor |
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| West Mill Tor |
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| West Mill Tor |
Southward is Little Tor which is exactly what it says on the tin, a fine group of granite outcrops with wonderful horizontal jointing.
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| West Mill Tor from Little Tor |
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| Little Tor |
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| High Willhays, Hampster Tor and Yes Tor from Little Tor |
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| Little Tor and West Mill Tor |
Heading south we picked up the army track that crosses the Red-a-ven Brook, and seeing that a path heads up to Yes Tor from here, took it to see what it was like; steep, of course, but scenic!
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| Yes Tor |
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| Yes Tor Trig Point |
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| Yes Tor Trig Point |
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| Yes Tor Cairn - highest cairn on the moor? |
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| Yes Tor |
The going was good now where Hampster Tor was the next goal, another grand collection of outcrops.
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| High Willhays from Hampster Tor |
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| Hampster Tor with Yes Tor on the right |
High Willhays was an easy stroll from here, the highest point in the south.
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| High Willhays Cairn Pile of Stones |
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| High Willhays |
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| High Willhays |
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| High Willhays |
We were heading into unexplored territory now to Fordsland Ledge, a small outcrop atop which are a couple of military firing range huts. The views of the West Okement Valley are stupendous.
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| Fordsland Ledge |
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| Fordsland Ledge flagpole |
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| Fordsland Ledge |
It was a boggy trudge to Dinger Tor which despite being only a kilometre away took what felt like forever to reach, and I know I say that a lot, but it's true! Arriving we were not disappointed and decided it would be our lunch spot.
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| Dinger Tor |
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| Dinger Tor |
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| Dinger Tor |
We started heading back in the direction of the car park now on another good military track, looking out for the point where the track is closest to Curtery Clitters so we could visit. The 'Clitters' are incorrectly marked on OS maps as being a 'bog'; this is not the case as the name refers to the large clitter south-west of it at SX 5915 8969.
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| Okehampton Parish Bound Stone on the right I presume? |
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| Curtery Clitters looking to East Mill Tor |
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| Curtery Clitters |
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| Curtery Clitters |
We dropped down to New Bridge to follow the track north back to the car park.
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