SHOW Paths, Tracks and Roads

Beginning the climb to Strete

This is the A379 at the north end of Slapton Line. to the right of the photographer are the grounds of a house converted from an old stable block. In the 1800's when this route was covered by horse drawn stage coach two extra horses were put on at this point to make a team of 6 to pull the coach up the hill from sea level to Strete at 400 feet above sea level (it's about 1 mile to Strete). The old road didn't actually follow this line but went up the side of the hill and cliff face and was quite a bit steeper, this route incorporates a hairpin bend to ease the slope.
The bus makes relatively light work of the current incline.

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Panasonic G1 with 20mm, f/1.7 Panasonic @ f/8, 1/125 sec, iso 200

Barrie
 
Stealing this genre idea from the MU43.com forums ... Please do share your images of paths, roads and tracks here.

To get the ball rolling this is an image I took from July 2004 with a Canon IXUS. We had climbed out of the Avon valley and where strolling out for a couple days of bushwalking in the Avon Valley National Park. This was one of the sections where we made use of a track.

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Amongst the Wandoo by Andrew Priest (Aushiker), on Flickr
 
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