Glorious morning temperature inversion

Sunday: Woke again to glorious weather. Before breakfasting I climbed up rocks behind my pitch to get a 4G signal where I discovered a temperature inversion. The view in the photograph looking WNW towards the coast west of the mountains was shrouded in cloud, the inland east of the mountains was in brilliant sunshine. Quite a sight not often seen. This weather system remained for the rest of the day with my route remaining in the sunshine.

As I was packing after breakfast a party of 6 people walked past me. Because they were walking in the direction I was about to set off I thought I might catch them up. I was planning to walk at a bit of a pace because I was 3 miles behind my schedule and determined to get to pub tonight for a proper meal and hoping to catch an evening service. I never saw them again so presume I was walking far slower. In my defence they were not carrying 15 kilogramme packs!Read more