tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post5231706234974767697..comments2024-03-28T11:16:38.801+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Saturday walk - Liphook to Haslemere - Shulbrede Priory & its woods Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-9793026583343500292020-12-06T13:50:15.169+00:002020-12-06T13:50:15.169+00:00Wetherspoons sold the Swan in 2015. Very well refu...Wetherspoons sold the Swan in 2015. Very well refurbished by the present owners and can be thoroughly recommended in summer or winter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-35720078814416729882020-12-05T22:57:58.563+00:002020-12-05T22:57:58.563+00:00Four more, I hear from one of the other subgroups,...Four more, I hear from one of the other subgroups, so n=19Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09314024151810191831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-15866803148612049972020-12-05T20:43:51.034+00:002020-12-05T20:43:51.034+00:00N=15 on this walk, splitting into three or four sm...N=15 on this walk, splitting into three or four smaller groups. On the train down, as the sun shone, I was silently speculating how far south we would get before it clouded over. The answer was near Haslemere. Hugely disappointingly, it then went on to rain (which had not been mentioned in the previous night’s forecast) and we had w=frequent-showers all day: ie we definitely drew the short straw weather-wise, judging by the other walk reports. <br /><br />That apart, this made a great winter walk. I remember it from the early days of the SWC as a winter mudfest. But it just goes to show memories are unreliable, because lots of the paths were firm and gravelly. I might have found the endless woods a bit depressing at other times of the year, but with the branches all bare it was rather attractive. <br /><br />Five (at two widely separated tables) ate in the pub, which seemed grateful for the business. Three of us in the afternoon went up onto Black Down, ie doing the Haslemere Circular afternoon route. A lovely invigorating climb. From the top there was a good view of blue skies to the north...<br /><br />By the time we got to Haslemere, the others were long gone, but two of us had tea and cakes in Hemingway’s before our quixotic engineering works journey home via Chertsey and Egham. Arriving back at Waterloo I found the station busier than I have seen it since mid March. Whether this is a good or bad thing, I do not know. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com