Three Dales: Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Kettlewell 16/06/12

Dropped a Saturday on the 9th June, not least because I was bloody well knackered after doing more than 50 miles over my long week off and then returning to work, so when the next weekend wheels around, I wasn't going to miss out, I was walking no matter what, and anyways it was the last weekend of spring and that would surely mean a good long day for walking. Three Yorkshire Dales in one day, seemed such an inviting prospect too, until my weather eye watched the BBC weather site giving progressively worse predictions for the coming weekend. Well, thinks I, I've not had a day of walking in foul weather, how bad can it be? Let's just say, writing this might well induce post-traumatic stress...

Active June: Day Two

Three Dales: Horton in Ribblesdale to Kettlewell.  13.2 miles

Shipley to Ilkley via Rombalds Moor 04/06/12

Ever since hatching the idea of 'walking as pastime', there has been one walk that I have always had on the slate and never gotten done, and since 2007, I haven't had the excuse of transport costs to dissuade me from doing it. That walk is the trip from Shipley to Ilkley across Rombalds Moor as it's a journey into spectacular bleakness that isn't a day's excursion away and it's a relatively modest distance on a well-defined path too. Probably cowardice on my part for leaving it aside for so long, but how it got missed off my to do list for the first three active months is something of a mystery. So let's go out for Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday, and do my bit for Britain by patriotically engaging with the countryside. Active June? Yeah, why not?

Active June: Day One

Shipley to Ilkley via Rombalds Moor.  9.2 miles