Oh, good morning YouTube. In this one I’m back out on Dartmoor again, but right on the eastern edge, following the Wray Valley Trail. It’s a roughly 7-mile hiking and cycling route from Moretonhampstead down to Bovey Tracey, and it mostly sticks to an old Victorian railway line that opened in 1866 and finally closed in 1959. Because it’s an old rail bed, it stays fairly level for a lot of the way, with just about a mile on quiet roads (and yes… I still managed to take a wrong turn and add an unnecessary little climb). It was a drizzly July morning, proper on-and-off British summer weather, so I was messing about with the waterproof and bag cover at the start. The trail starts off busier near Moretonhampstead with joggers and dog walkers, then it quietens down into this lush woodland where everything’s covered in moss and the undergrowth is thick. There are some really cool sections too—rock walls either side where the old line barrels through, the river down below, and then you pop out into Lustleigh before hitting the road section. If you’re new to hiking and the tors and open moorland feel a bit intimidating, I genuinely think this is a perfect “cut your teeth” Dartmoor walk: accessible, tranquil in parts, and easy-going underfoot… as long as you watch out for fallen trees and the fattest spider you’ve ever seen hitching a ride on your backpack.