June 14th 2008 Cartmel No race meeting but a lovely tranquil village, a local society wedding at the Priory complete with vintage car and a cricket match being played on the equivalent of the village green, relaxing in the local hostelry after a strenuous walk. Could life be better?

My apologies dear reader. I got rather lazy about keeping up to date and thus missed completely reporting on our May walk, which was to Howarth, Yorkshire on the 9th May. The area of course was made famous by the Brontes and is now visited by tourists from all over the world, even the local sign posts are repeated in Japanese. The B group's lunch stop was on the moor above Bronte bridge. I don't know where the A party got to but we all met up later, even Tom rejoining us. Thanks to our walk leaders Roy and Maureen we enjoyed walks of about 11 and 7 miles in good weather. One of the problems of writing in this blog is that I can only report that which I see or hear about and I only go on one of the walks so how about you, dear reader, is there something from that last walk you would like to comment upon? If so then why not try adding a comment, its very easy, just hit the comment button and follow the instructions.

Grassington April 2008

En route we encountered two extensive detours caused by accidents putting us over thirty minutes behind schedule and as we neared Grassington the snow thickened on the hills and we expected a white walk but as if by magic the snow disappeared when we actually arrived. There were 43 of us in two walks, a twelve and a seven miler led by Alex and Mike respectively. We set off in sunshine and it was good to see both Tom and Maureen fit enough to join us once again. The weather treated us to the full range of seasons in just a few hours. Our lunch stop in Conistone saw Wendy using her initiative to find a dry place to eat (see pictures) and, as it was wet underfoot the walking was both careful and tiring. We returned to Grassington via the Dales Way, the A walk knocking a couple of miles off their route so that both groups arrived almost together back at the coach. The usual hostelry visit was particularly welcome.

Grassington

Halfway