Saturday
Settle received a nice covering of snow at the start of the week on Monday, followed by another top up on Friday afternoon, so I was really keen to get out in the snow this weekend. On Saturday me and the boy Hazzer set off around the Settle Loop, which is a circular route out towards Malham and back, well known by local hill walkers, runners and mountain bikers alike. In the summer on firm ground its really fast and runnable all the way (there's an annual trail/fell race each September too) but, what with the snow and ice, yesterday it was a brilliant mix of runnable, trudge-able, wade-able, crawl-able and skate-able.
The normal route, shown
here (as a mountain bike trail), unfortunately misses out two great hills and trig points so my route yesterday (see
here) added in visits to the top of Rye Loaf Hill and Warrendale Knotts, and made the total run 11.6 miles and just over 1,700 feet of climb. The snow drifts were incredible in places too, whipped up by a strong gusting biting wind.
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| Harry with his sticky legs spying out the way |
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| A droopy drift |
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| Stockdale Lane after the farmer had been through with his snow plough |
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| The ice blasted trig point on Rye Loaf Hill |
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| Coming off of Rye Loaf into the snowy wilderness |
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| Harry at the drift blocked entrance to Jubilee Cave |
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| Harry admiring the view towards High Hill |
Today
An absolutely gorgeous run with Hester and Harry into Narnia Hackfall and Rumer Woods from Masham. Lots of stick chucking and snow kicking for Harry, with Hes and I spotting lots of wildlife tracks in the snow. We spotted 8 buzzards flying over Rumer woods at the same time and also saw two hares.
A beautiful run followed by falafel, tea and chocolate cake in Johnny Baghdad's cafe in Masham.
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| Hackfall Woods |
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| Hester looking gorgeous |
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| Hazzer swimming in the Ure |
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| Hackfall |
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| Rumer Woods |
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