Today, Saturday, January 16th, Steve and I hiked the other side of the Macclesfield Forrest ending up at the end of our hike at Trentabank Reservoir, which is where we began our hike a couple of weeks ago when we also tackled the high hill of Shutlingsloe. It was close to 3 miles and took us around three hours. We began the walk parked by the Ridgegate Reservoir and walked up a stony and incredibly steep drive then entered the woods. After we reached an old broken cottage we entered deeper woods and a much steeper climb. Because it is so dark in the forest, fungus is abundant and when the sun does break through and hits it, it is luminescent. We reached a height of close to 460 meters! We could see other hills that we had tackled, first was Tegg's Nose and then Shutlingsloe. Naturally, the views were awesome and the weather was on our side - that is to say, it was near freezing at the base and freezing and windy at the top, but no rain, so that makes it a great walking day.
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