The weather has been brilliant this July and today had been no exception, so at 8.15pm I set off from Coppice for Great Hill. Tired after a days work in the muggy heat this was just the tonic I needed. Leaving White Coppice I headed up alongside The Gorge and at the quarry scrambled up the path which runs high above Dean Black Brook. There's a path that veers off to the left, which I took and then met the main path and headed to Coppice Stile. From there I simply followed the path all the way to the summit. There a met a friendly cyclist and chatted for ten minutes before he left and left me with the summit to my self. It was stunning. At 9.30 I began the stroll back - with the sun now below the horizon it was almost dark when I arrived back in Coppice at 10pm