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This walk started from Stokenchurch, west of High Wycombe. We had changed the date to Thursday (as per the meets programme) and the venue, in order to make it more accessible to those who were available.
We met at Aston Rowant nature reserve in a small car park, as the main one was being renovated by people with several large diggers and masses of mud. From there we took a path down the field, under a bridge beneath the M40 and along the Swan’s Way track towards Watlington.
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 through the woods in the rain
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After a coffee break in dry conditions, we decided to take the lower route beside Watlington Hill as it began to rain quite heavily for a while.
We continued through woodland in rain, but with a reasonably solid leafy path to pick up the Chiltern Way, where it stopped raining for a while.
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 Here we took photos by the statue at the edge of Wormsley park and found large swathes of snowdrops to cheer us into thinking the Spring is on its way.
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We were further encouraged by seeing lambs as we crossed fields towards the next ridge, where we found a nice log to sit on for a lunch break.
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The final section up to the M40, uphill in the next rain shower left us wanting to get home rather than exploring the pub in the village.
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Fortunately we all had good, short journeys back and were glad we had made the effort to come out, meet each other and see the countryside.
Present: Margaret Moore, Mike Goodyer, Judy Renshaw
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