Distance - 7 Miles
Geocaches - 1 ALC (providing 5 finds)
Walk Inspiration - Country Walking Magazine May 2020 - Walk 10
My Appearance - Woolly Hat, glasses perched at the of my nose and a big white Lock Down 2 beard.
Sutton Park - Packed Solid with families, getting in the way and forming terrible queues at refreshment centres.
My Son - Proclaiming tomorrow's Birmingham Mail headline as;
"Second Rate Santa breaks 2m Social Distancing Rules"
This walk more or less follows the route laid down in Country Walking Magazine but has been slightly adapted for to take in the locations of an Adventure Lab Cache. For the unaware, this is an online treasure hunt where you look for information detailed at 5 locations, to which you are guided by your phone's GPS. The one for Sutton Park is quite a walk and takes in the main highlights - Three of the bigger pools - Longmoor, Bracebridge and Blackroot, the rifle butts and Rowton's Well.
And what an asset to the 2nd City Sutton Park is. 2400 Acres making it one of the biggest urban parks in Europe. It's stupidly busy at the hotspots around the bistros and pools but march on and you will be rewarded with total wilderness and solitude. The parts around the former Roman Road of Ryknild Street were especially quiet.
Guide Dog in Training Abi had a wild time - 100s of dogs to play with, puddles to wallow and pools to clean off in.
Blackroot Bistro's excellent coffee and paninis meant that Mrs M and Son #1 had a day out worthy of the allowed "short journey for exercise" rule.
Other rules stopped me from having the usual post walk pint. For tomorrow, I have a plan.
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| Starting off amongst the crowds near Wyndley Pool |
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| Wilderness of Rynkild Street |
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| A typical information point for the ALC |
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| Woodland on the way to Blackroot Pool |
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| Blackroot Pool |
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