Hogsback Circuit

Sunday 14 April 2019

Roaring stags forced a diversion from Knowles Top to Hogsback. A tidy eight people in two cars parked behind Castle Hill Village, and set off on a clockwise circuit. The predicted southerly arrived at midday, but this basin seems to be blessed so we got no rain while Christchurch and the plains got a bit wet. Snow on the tops all around us was a fore-taste of the months to come.

On our circuit we met lots of small mountain bikes with little people peddling them, and being guided by bigger people on shiny new bikes. Through the day, we must have been passed by twenty peddlers, all very willing to stop and let us through, but it’s easier for walkers to step off an incised slippery clay track.