The weather forecast for Sunday 11th December was not promising for our run to Spinsters Rock, but four of us left Five Lanes and swept through Compton and over the hump to Newton Abbot, thence to Bovey Tracey to pick up Michael Ward.

Cape-ing up and down was the order of the day up the valley the Moretonhampstead, where we decided to leave the old Spinsters for another day and shorten our route by climbing up and over Doccombe to have our lunch in the woods at Steps Bridge. Richard Wiseman was not quickly enough on the shutter button to capture the robin hopping onto his shoe!

Extra clothing was dinned for a cold Teign Valley, where we attempted some shepherding before riding on with the intention of invading the Brodie household for tea and crumpets to bring a cold but not too wet day to a close.

(Robert Spence)

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