After yesterday's long run I didn't really mean to go far but the weather was just too brilliant to stay indoors and 'the top of the world' was an inviting prospect. This is my name for the highest point round here, where (on a fine day) you can see 'from sea to shining sea' - ie the Atlantic to the north and the English Channel (or at least the Western Approaches) beyond Falmouth to the south. The true high point is at Four Lanes close to the huge TV mast but my destination was on the Stithians road out of Redruth - where I once discovered I can drink in an amazing 360° view if I climb up on the old milk churn stand outside Tresthow Farm!
So, having chugged up the hill through Pendarves wood to Troon, followed by another upward mile or so to the old Nine Maidens school, and finally through the long ribbon development of Four Lanes, I reached my vantage point . . . . . only to be disappointed! A bank of mist enveloped the north cliffs and the south coast was beneath a grey haze; neither 'shining sea' was visible yet I was basking in full bright sunshine (and pretty hot too after all those hills)! Well, the closer scenery was some reward: Stithians Lake (west Cornwall's largest reservoir), Carn Marth and St Agnes Beacon, Carn Brea with its monument, Trink and Trencrom hills in the south west distance and all punctuated with too many mine engine houses and chimneys to count - its a shame that no photo can do justice to such a rich scene.
Downhill most of the way home, I captured today's photo just outside Carnkie - a few of those mine engine houses and chimneys framing the Basset Monument atop Carn Brea.
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