The Tour of Blackford (CarnEasy Run)
I promised a 4 miler this week so in homage to “The Tour of Pendle” we did “The tour of Blackford”. The light nights meant that we had to start up Observatory Road.
After a straight run to the summit we visited the bumps to the south. Hayley really enjoyed the rock climbing aspect of the first rock hillock (Corbie’s Craig). We headed on down and after an out and back of the southern bump we descended the scree down to the hermitage bridge.
A quick run along the Hermie and we headed back up the Arette (another joyous rock climb) and back up to the summit.
Descending back towards Observatory road we zigzagged down to the Duck Pond and after a quick circumnavigation we ascended once more.
Then it was straight back to KB in 4.02 miles 1 hour 10 minutes and 800 feet of climb.