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bladup 1986 posts |
Aug 23, 2012, 21:42
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thesweetcheat wrote: Sanctuary wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: postman wrote: bladup wrote: The only problem i can think of is parking, because i don't drive and i don't think tsc does either i don't know about parking, so someone may be able to help you out on that score. We approached from the north also There is no purpose built car park, but there is a layby for about three cars maybe, plus two or three smaller one car laybies I walked up from the bus stop at Zennor, but's not a nice road to walk along really (narrow and busy). If you can park as postie suggests, job done! (It's not the most interesting way to the Quoit, but certainly the easiest by far). You're a class act if you have to either walk or rely on public transport TSC. Hat's off! unless I'm with Postie or Drew... We've just completed Offa's Dyke Path - 177 miles from North Wales to South using public transport, I'm quite chuffed with that. :) But I've also torn my hamstring, so perhaps there's a lot to be said for cars! :( Wimp.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Aug 23, 2012, 21:51
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bladup wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: Sanctuary wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: postman wrote: bladup wrote: The only problem i can think of is parking, because i don't drive and i don't think tsc does either i don't know about parking, so someone may be able to help you out on that score. We approached from the north also There is no purpose built car park, but there is a layby for about three cars maybe, plus two or three smaller one car laybies I walked up from the bus stop at Zennor, but's not a nice road to walk along really (narrow and busy). If you can park as postie suggests, job done! (It's not the most interesting way to the Quoit, but certainly the easiest by far). You're a class act if you have to either walk or rely on public transport TSC. Hat's off! unless I'm with Postie or Drew... We've just completed Offa's Dyke Path - 177 miles from North Wales to South using public transport, I'm quite chuffed with that. :) But I've also torn my hamstring, so perhaps there's a lot to be said for cars! :( Wimp. Oi...that's not a fish :-)
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ocifant 1758 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 06:44
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Sorry Roy, only just seen this, but yeah, TSC has nailed it with that first response. Last time I was up there, a lot of the gorse had been cut for firebreaks, so the paths were nice and wide (so no problem with adders). They may have grown back by now of course :-) Parking can be tricky if you don't know where to look, as coming from the north the best spots are before you get to the track or the house ("Is it this one? no. Is it this one? No" etc.) I'm not usually on a timetable, so if the parking slots are empty, or I miss them I just try again another day...
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ocifant 1758 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 06:44
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Sorry Roy, only just seen this, but yeah, TSC has nailed it with that first response. Last time I was up there, a lot of the gorse had been cut for firebreaks, so the paths were nice and wide (so no problem with adders). They may have grown back by now of course :-) Parking can be tricky if you don't know where to look, as coming from the north the best spots are before you get to the track or the house ("Is it this one? no. Is it this one? No" etc.) I'm not usually on a timetable, so if the parking slots are empty, or I miss them I just try again another day...
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 07:46
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ocifant wrote: Sorry Roy, only just seen this, but yeah, TSC has nailed it with that first response. Last time I was up there, a lot of the gorse had been cut for firebreaks, so the paths were nice and wide (so no problem with adders). They may have grown back by now of course :-) Parking can be tricky if you don't know where to look, as coming from the north the best spots are before you get to the track or the house ("Is it this one? no. Is it this one? No" etc.) I'm not usually on a timetable, so if the parking slots are empty, or I miss them I just try again another day... Thanks Alan. So many of the fieldnotes written three or four years ago talk of dense gorse and taking forever to reach the quoits, if at all, that it was quite offputting. Cheers.
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bladup 1986 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 12:30
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ocifant wrote: Sorry Roy, only just seen this, but yeah, TSC has nailed it with that first response. Last time I was up there, a lot of the gorse had been cut for firebreaks, so the paths were nice and wide (so no problem with adders). They may have grown back by now of course :-) Parking can be tricky if you don't know where to look, as coming from the north the best spots are before you get to the track or the house ("Is it this one? no. Is it this one? No" etc.) I'm not usually on a timetable, so if the parking slots are empty, or I miss them I just try again another day... The gorse is still cut for firebreaks and is still wide up on the hill itself and the path up the hill pretty good, if you find the path you will have no trouble at all, it was getting well overgrown years ago [on the hill] and is a lot easier now, as long as you find the right path, i think you might be surprised how easy it is, it's a nice gentle walk , hills one side , wild atlantic sea the other,quoit on hill, what more could you want.
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ocifant 1758 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 20:19
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Well, it certainly took me 3 or 4 attempts before I first found it all those years ago! As Bladup says below though, it's all a lot easier these days.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 21:27
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ocifant wrote: Well, it certainly took me 3 or 4 attempts before I first found it all those years ago! As Bladup says below though, it's all a lot easier these days. I was considering asking my aerial photography mate Simon to fly me up there in his helicopter if it was going to be buried in gorse, but then I remembered I'm still waiting for the begger to fly me over Avebury like he promised two years ago :-)
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thesweetcheat 6210 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 21:31
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Sanctuary wrote: ocifant wrote: Well, it certainly took me 3 or 4 attempts before I first found it all those years ago! As Bladup says below though, it's all a lot easier these days. I was considering asking my aerial photography mate Simon to fly me up there in his helicopter if it was going to be buried in gorse, but then I remembered I'm still waiting for the begger to fly me over Avebury like he promised two years ago :-) You'll only be buried in gorse if you go via Towednack, up Beagletodn Downs to the Trendrine Hill cairns, then to the Quoit via the Sperris hut circle settlement. That really is leg-shreddingly bad until you get to the top of Trendrine. But only an idiot (and an idiot's G/F) would choose such a stupid route in summer.
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Sanctuary 4670 posts |
Aug 24, 2012, 21:39
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thesweetcheat wrote: Sanctuary wrote: ocifant wrote: Well, it certainly took me 3 or 4 attempts before I first found it all those years ago! As Bladup says below though, it's all a lot easier these days. I was considering asking my aerial photography mate Simon to fly me up there in his helicopter if it was going to be buried in gorse, but then I remembered I'm still waiting for the begger to fly me over Avebury like he promised two years ago :-) You'll only be buried in gorse if you go via Towednack, up Beagletodn Downs to the Trendrine Hill cairns, then to the Quoit via the Sperris hut circle settlement. That really is leg-shreddingly bad until you get to the top of Trendrine. But only an idiot (and an idiot's G/F) would choose such a stupid route in summer. Well I've been known to do idiot so I'm halfway there!! I went to Cradle Hill donkeys ago at night UFO spotting (yeah I know!)with a bunch of enthusiasts. I came to this stile so climbed over it....while the others just walked straight through cos the fence had been taken down!!! Haaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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