Longtown Recce

Today I was checking out a route of a walk I am leading this weekend. Went fine up till lunchtime, when we discovered that a footbridge we needed to cross was no longer there and there was no way across the river. Oh bugger. So we had lunch looking at the broken bridge. Rethought the route we had to take now, some 3 mile along roads detour to get back onto my original route. It gets worse, to shorten the road walking there were some footpaths that would shorten the detour. Foiled again, unpassable stile in one, no way through another as the path died at a house.

After we rejoined my original planned route we had to cut out another section to keep the walk within the distance I had planned - 10 miles. Thankfully the new route included part of the Monnow Valley Way so we knew we wouldnt have any more problems with stiles or paths just dying out on us.

Looking forward to Sunday now and the real thing.