Time: Approx 2.5 hours at a reasonable pace
Ascent: +-82m
Wednesday 12th dawned with a heavy frost and definite rawness in the air. Nevertheless we stuck to our plans and headed off to Stansted Forest. Our reward; by lunchtime the sun had appeared and so had the mud.
1. Free car parking by the Employees' access to Stansted House.
2. Frozen fields and a wintery sky. Luckily there was no wind otherwise it would have felt very cold.
3. Stansted House.
4. More fungus. I think this is Turkeytail (Trametes versicolor). The fungus was covered in green mould so the colour was unclear.
5. We got a glimpse of Racton Monument on our walk from Walderton in November. Since then we'd made a note to get a closer view. Although it's privately owned there's nothing to stop you wandering around the building. Sadly this means that the inside is a target for graffiti and there is litter all over the place. Maybe I'd been affected by what I'd read about the monument but it has an uncomfortable air about it; not sure I'd want to turn it into a house.
6. Looking east the rolling hills hint at the start of the South Downs.
7. Strangely I had only just said that it had been a long time since we'd seen a thrush.
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