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( 3 / 1610 )This month we have gained 5 new members and 7 new dogs. Welcome to you all. We’ve also had 6 new enquiries, so the group is steadily growing which is great!
We had a ‘get to know you’ social at the Cricket Inn, Dore and 5 of the new members turned up. Unfortunately the BBq was cancelled due to rain but we all managed to squeeze in around a big table inside.
The end of July walk was on a beautiful sunny day. We started at Shilito Woods car park, off the A621 Sheffield to Baslow road and crossed the open moors towards Owler Bar, the doubled back near Holmesfield and Fox lane through woodland. It was a great walk with lots of free running for the dogs except there were numerous gates which were locked! We had to lift the dogs over 2 of them as there were no stiles, including Cara an Estrela Mountain dog the size of a St Bernard! So that’s a black mark on our list of trialled walks.
August walk details as follows;
Date: Sunday 22nd August
Time: 10.30 am
Location: Holmesfield and Miilthorpe.
Start point: there is a small parking area at the junction of the B6051 at Millthorpe, near the Royal Oak pub. See the link below.
Walk details: some hills and valleys, across farmland and through preserved woodlands of South west Sheffield and North Derbyshire. This walk also covers parts of the Dronfield 2000 Rotary walks
Distance: 5 miles
Duration: approximaltey 2 hours
Refreshments: the Royal Oak at Holmesfield
google maps link
We look forward to seeing you then. If you are going to be late or can’t make it please call or text me 07811031694 so that we are not waiting about too long. – Victoria
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( 3 / 1545 )Well the bus trip wasn't too bad ( I was a bit worried I must admit), with all the dogs behaving brilliant, and it made a bit of a change to the start of the walk!!
Even though it wasn't the toughtest of terrian and most challenging of walks I hope you all enjoyed it along with your dogs. Again they all seemed to get on very well and let new girl Molly join in and lead most of the charges. I have up loaded the pics on to the flickr site so please have a look.
Thanks again for all those who attanded and I would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and New Year and hopefully see you all on the 27th of Jan for the Radio 4 walk.
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( 3 / 1680 )A quick note to thank all those who turned up for the walk even though the skys did open at the start. Not sure if you have seen but I have put the few pics I took on to the Flickr site for you to have a look at.
Ben has passed on the link for his GPS (shown below) which shows the route taken and information on distance, elevation etc
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&am ... 8d0fa3358a
Information on the next walk will follow shortly, as agreed we will be doing it on the 13th December starting back at 10am.
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( 2.9 / 1656 )Well, the first walk seemed to be a resounding success.
There was a good turnout, but also a small enough group that Vicky was able to dart back and forth between everyone to get flyers to the innocent passers by, which made them slightly less worried about the large pack of (well behaved) dogs and (not so well behaved :-)) owners that were suddenly upon them ;-)
The 3 mile estimate was probably a bit on the conservative side, but the stop at the Norfolk Arms for a hlafway refreshment more than made up for it.
I think it's fair to say that all dogs and owners had a thoroughly enjoyable time, so please enjoy the photos that were taken
SDWG October walk photos on flickr
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