Our first walk was on 15th July 2012 and was a bit quiet. We had just five people on it. This was partly due to lack of publicity. Our website stopped working the day before the walk! I had a couple of phone calls from people wanting to go to the walk but unable to see the details, so I was able to tell them where to meet up. Also we weren't yet on the Group-Finder or Walk-Finder pages of the Ramblers website.
Anyway, the walk went well and the weather was a mixture of sun and cloud, but it didn't rain! The paths were not as muddy as we'd expected, considering the amount of rainfall in the preceding weeks, but some were a bit overgrown.
The walk took us along the Lambourn Way and then up onto the undulating Eastbury Down and gallops. We stopped off for a pleasant drink at a pub at Eastbury and then returned through farmland, stopping again for a late picnic lunch. See the route on Google Maps.
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