SKAR Walk No 7 - The Stile Challenge

SKAR Walk No 7 was Saturday 21st May.  A circular walk from Deep Hayes Country Park. All of SKAR were out for the walk. Weather was dry but a bit cloudy.

The walk started from Deep Hayes country park were the ducks kept me on my toes while we were getting ready to depart. The walk took us along the canal to Cheddleton, then up through the village and over to Stanley pool.

Cheddleton Flint Mill

Stanley Pool

We had a pub break at the Travellers Rest in Stanely - mainly because I hadn't been in for years and wanted to see what it was like. From there it was off through the fields heading back to Denford

Being a relatively shorty I do struggle with the stiles but as we headed back from Stanley we came across several different styles of stiles in a short distance and so we did the stile challenge.

Stile Challenge No 1 - the Squeeze Through

 This sort of stile I always seem to get me and my bag stuck !


Stile Challenge No 2 - the Step Ladder

Rob seems to have lost a leg going over the Step Ladder stile - still my favourite type of stile !

Stile Challenge No 3 -  The See-Saw with the rock that is supposed to help but isn't in the right place

The worst sort of stile ... they always are too high for my little legs and once you get on them they rock like a see-saw !

Stile Challenge No 4 - the Parallel Bars with two things to negotiate. A hurdle and a squeeze through.

This stile seemed a bit over the top. We first had to negotiate the first hurdle, and then it was the parallel bars. Finally a squeeze through bit. I managed to put my hand in bird muck on the parellel bars whilst negotiating this stile !

Stile Challenge No 5. The Deceptive. It looked easy but it wasn't.

 I gave this one a  miss and opened the gate instead !

Stile Challenge No 6 - The Tricky Dismount.

There wasn't enough room to dismount this stile and the "steps" were rubbish on the dismount side.

The walk finished off with a walk back along the canal. Stopped off at the Holybush at Denford for hot chicken and stuffing sandwiches and chips! It was then a short walk back to Deep Hayes Country Park.

In total the walk, according to Runkeeper was just over 8.3 miles.