When a rushing torrent cascades, down a precipitous rocky gorge.
When the intensity of the white noise is so brilliant on your ears, that it feels like acoustic sunshine.
You know you're here.

When the waterfall's rumble is almost completely absorbed by ground knee deep in the softest, deepest foliage.
When all around it echoes throughout a vast cathedral of untouched woodland, that grows up the steep sided gorge, and up, and up again.
And it's intense sound blends and sheens back to you, filtered and reflected from the countless leaves and branches above your head.
You know that by being here, you've made it.
Made it up, to the Dartmoor gorge.

Whether it's the journey, and sometimes hazardous climb.
Or the gradually growing sensation of remoteness, as you pick your way along the path, up, and up.
Or the air, that becomes increasingly filled with a mix of rushing water, and songful woodland birds, and cool negative ions.
Coming here, feels like a pilgrimage.
A pilgrimage to a rarified place, that's lit through day and through night, by brilliant, refreshing, acoustic sunshine.

• Dartmoor, in the South West of England, is home to vast expanses of woodland that we've recently learned are classified as rainforest. We made this recording in April 2022 and released most of it in episode 117. The timeline in this episode partly overlaps with that episode, but we haven't been able to travel back and we feel so drawn to the place that we decided to re-issue part of that section of time with the remaining unreleased material, this time in high definition spatial sound.