Dales Tip-to-Tip – Day 3
28th August 2022: Kettlewell to Yockenthwaite – 8.5m We had another lazy morning and I enjoyed just taking time over the daily routine, rather than rushing to get an early start. I had a nice spot beside the road, set a little way back and with the sliding door of the van facing the hillside […]
Dales Tip-to-Tip – Day 2
27th August 2022: Burnsall Bridge to Kettlewell – 9.8m I’m beginning to think this walk may be cursed! It was supposed to be an 8-day walk carried out over 3x three-day weekends, with a day to spare for doing one of the shorter Dales 30 walks we have planned. You may recall from the first […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 5
7th August 2022 – Ripon to Boroughbridge – 8.8m Typically, the one day this week I actually felt like I could have had a lie in, I kinda needed to be up and out early. I stirred at 5am (I could hear the distant chimes of the cathedral bells counting the hour) and turned over […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 4
6th August 2022 – Masham to Ripon – 14.6m Well that was quite a tough day, although to be fair I made it tougher than it should have been. I’m back in my hotel room now and my feet are buzzing from the 15 mile pounding they’ve taken and from the piss poor protection offered […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 3
5th August 2022 – Middleham to Masham – 11.1m As a couple of people suggested yesterday, a good night’s sleep worked wonders for me. I woke feeling a bit more positive and without the dead weights for legs I had yesterday morning. I’d fallen asleep watching Bill Burr on my tablet last night and it […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 2
4th August 2022 – Askrigg to Middleham – 14.2m I feel completely done-in! I’m sitting in the Richard III in Middleham after having walked the 14.5 miles from Askrigg, had a shower, got changed and gone searching for a decent WiFi signal. I don’t know why I feel so knackered, it’s not a particularly difficult […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 1
3rd August 2022 – Garsdale Head to Askrigg – 11.9m I’m feeling knackered right now and it’s not even 9am, furthermore I’ve not even started walking yet! I don’t think I slept at all last night. I’m not sure what happened, but it felt like I was constantly awake – perhaps it was my subconscious […]
Yoredale Way 2022 – Day 0
2nd August 2022 – Home to Garsdale Head It was absolutely lashing it down when I left the house this morning. I’d planned to leave about 8am, but when the rain on the window woke me about 5.30 I decided the potential for long delays on the motorway was too great, so an earlier start […]
Dales Tip-to-Tip – Day 1
2nd July 2022: Ellishaw Hill to Burnsall Bridge – 10.1m Regular readers may remember a post from the back end of last year where I planned a ‘Dales Adventure‘ – today was the start of that adventure. An attempt to walk from one corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park to the other, along a […]
July #MicroAdventure
Our walking calendars finally aligned, allowing us to meet up for a weekend of walking, camping and catching up. After an incredible exchange of emails and GPX files, Matt (@hillplodder) and I had decided on Wales, specifically the area around New Radnor which offered a huge haul of trig points and summits for a paltry […]