Monday 01/02/2010. Another cold night on the moor, in the morning my water had frozen in its bottle inside the tent and my boots were iron-hard, it all adds to the time I take to get packed-up and away. I find in winter it takes me a minimum of two hours between waking up for the morning brew and getting back onto the route. Still we have another wonderful day the sun is back still shining in it's heaven, the trail beckons and I have a couple of lovely gentle miles over the two Hograh Moors into secluded Baysedale. From here I took the easy option of walking up the road to join the Cleveland Way on Battersby Bank for the final six or so miles to Guisborough. There is a more direct route steeply up the hillside but I chose the snowed up road rather than the snowed up hillside on the basis thta the road is slightly less likely to collapse under foot! At the top of the escarpment I met a group of walkers out for the day and on asking me about what I was doing, I don't think they quite believed me when I told them I had been camping! A mile of so or wonderful (level) walking along the top of Battersby Moor and I begin the descent down Park Vale to the hamlet of Kildale. There is a good cafe here, but I approach with some apprehension as I always seem to arrive here on the day the cafe has it's closing day, I can never remember which day of the week it does so. (No problem today, it closes on Thursdays). After some tea I climbed back uphill then keeping faith with the Cleveland Way made my way to Captain Cook's Monument. I have been here many times so usually don't hang around, but this is the first time I have seen the Cleveland hills stretching across the Teesdale plain to the far Hamblton Hills under a layer of perfect snow and it's quite beautiful. I spent some time with a couple of walkers having a break we chatted and I took some photographs. After that it was along to Highcliff Nab and then down through the Gisborough Woods back to town ending a quite exceptional walk thanks to the perfect winter conditions, this is one for the scrap-book if ever there was.Saturday, 6 February 2010
SAMARITAN WAY DAY 3
Monday 01/02/2010. Another cold night on the moor, in the morning my water had frozen in its bottle inside the tent and my boots were iron-hard, it all adds to the time I take to get packed-up and away. I find in winter it takes me a minimum of two hours between waking up for the morning brew and getting back onto the route. Still we have another wonderful day the sun is back still shining in it's heaven, the trail beckons and I have a couple of lovely gentle miles over the two Hograh Moors into secluded Baysedale. From here I took the easy option of walking up the road to join the Cleveland Way on Battersby Bank for the final six or so miles to Guisborough. There is a more direct route steeply up the hillside but I chose the snowed up road rather than the snowed up hillside on the basis thta the road is slightly less likely to collapse under foot! At the top of the escarpment I met a group of walkers out for the day and on asking me about what I was doing, I don't think they quite believed me when I told them I had been camping! A mile of so or wonderful (level) walking along the top of Battersby Moor and I begin the descent down Park Vale to the hamlet of Kildale. There is a good cafe here, but I approach with some apprehension as I always seem to arrive here on the day the cafe has it's closing day, I can never remember which day of the week it does so. (No problem today, it closes on Thursdays). After some tea I climbed back uphill then keeping faith with the Cleveland Way made my way to Captain Cook's Monument. I have been here many times so usually don't hang around, but this is the first time I have seen the Cleveland hills stretching across the Teesdale plain to the far Hamblton Hills under a layer of perfect snow and it's quite beautiful. I spent some time with a couple of walkers having a break we chatted and I took some photographs. After that it was along to Highcliff Nab and then down through the Gisborough Woods back to town ending a quite exceptional walk thanks to the perfect winter conditions, this is one for the scrap-book if ever there was.
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