Exmoor run

Peak: Dunkery Beacon
Area: Exmoor, Somerset
We opted to take a circuitous route home from Cornwall, so set off from a night in Tiverton up through Exmoor to the coast at Minehead. Torrential rain as we parked below Dunkery Beacon. This was a nice way to loosen the legs after last night's race, although the Beacon itself - the highpoint of Exmoor - is a very short outing from the road. I lengthened the run by following a track to the south of the hill as the shower clouds began to lift, then doubled back round to the huge cairn on the summit in spectacular conditions of sunburst and storm cloud. Views over Exmoor and across the Severn to the Glamorgan coast. I continued down through some lovely woods, then walked back up Dunkery Beacon for a second time with Kate during a longer sunny interval. Later, we all walked up Glastonbury Tor and looked back to this hill on the western horizon.