JOGLE 7 Day 5 Fri 5 Sep

Fri 5 Sep Start 0845 Finish 1615 Distance 14.5 Miles from Camelford to Bodmin.

It was a misty start to the day but very nice walking along the Camelford trial. Although the footpath is not well marked from Camelford and not particularly well maintained until it joins the old railway line; once you reach Wenford Dries/ Keybridge it becomes a motorway certainly the part from Camelford itself is more of a dog walking footpath for the locals as opposed to an attractive route for tourists. We stopped at The Old Inn for lunch that is also the highest pub in Cornwall. My boots and socks were very wet from walking through the long grass, so it was a case of boot and socks off and walking around in bare feet until they had dried out a bit in the very hot sun. I carried out a kit inspection of my Salomon GTX 3 Chassis Gore-Tex boots and discovered that the material for the uppers had developed a hole through wear and tear and that the stitching along a seam was coming undone. So that is the third pair of boots I have got through now. The first pair were ditched after the Pennine Way, although there was nothing wrong them, they just didn’t suite my ankles. We came off at Hellandbridge and took the very undulating minor road to Bodmin just to break up the monotony of the Camel Trial and it was the more direct route to our hotel. We arrived at the Westberry Hotel at 1615.