Sunday 18th. October 2009. After an excellent wild camp on the old mineral railway line built to shift ironstone from the Rosedale valley mines to Middlesbrough' smelting furneses I dropped down into Rosedale proper and along the valley into the touristy village of Rosedale Abbey. I walked 12 and a bit miles yesterday which has broken me in nicely and today I am anxious to get up onto the moors, this section takes in a lot of valley with climbs up and over to the next one ( my picture is of the approach to Farndale) and I will be seeing a lot of Blakey Ridge, Rudland Rigg, Bransdale Ridge and Bilsdale East Moor before reaching Easterside Hill and Hawnby. I reached Hawnby about five pm and the weather has turned to rain, drat so I kept going till I could find a place for a wild camp and pitched in a grand spot in a hollow by a dry stone wall, a wet night but I slept well having now completed about 38 miles, some of them not on the route though!
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