Sunday morning walk around Tunstall Reservoir and Weardale Moors

Less frost this morning but still icy. We drove over to Wolsingham then up the country lane to the dam wall end of the reservoir and parked up. Walking boots, coats, hats, gloves on and we were away for a 6 mile hike. We headed over the dam and up the lane past the farm and on to the moor heading for the house that took 30+ years to build on the A68. From there we turned along the wall and out onto another country lane for approx 20yards before going through the new gate on the left and dropping back down over the moor coming out at the far end of the reservoir. We took the single track path down the left side back to the dam end, crossed back over and back to the car. It was minus one degree driving over and with the wind chill factor on the exposed moor top it was a lot colder. We had snow, cloud, overcast and wind to contend with. Conditions under foot were wet, muddy and boggy to say the least. First time we have done the route walking, I have rode most of it and only slightly diverted off the track once in thick heather on one of the moor sections. It was very quiet and only seen a few other walkers out near the dam end. Once we dropped back down to Wolsingham the snow stopped but it was still zero degrees.