With rain forecast to spread over the area during the morning we set off on a cautious ride to the lower Hembury track, always ready to turn back once the rain started. But it hadn't started by the time we had climbed Shuttaford Hill and reached Holne, so we took a chance and went into the café for a drink. They have a new coffee machine there which makes much improved coffees.

We didn't push our luck by staying too long and managed to return via Scoriton before the rain finally started in the early afternoon.