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| Clough Head Hill |
You start the day with a stiff climb out of Cowling before descending back down into Lothersdale. Over the hills once again you
reach open moor land and pleasant waking. From Thorton in Crave you walk along the canals until you reach East Morton, then across some farmer's field to Gargrave. In one of these fields, while singing along to Lion King, I bumped into another Pennine Way walker. We joined forces till Gargrave. He'd covered 30 miles yesterday which was impressive, and although he was having his things ferried ahead that's daunting millage. A baby calf, just before the town, got spooked and ran ahead of us making it increasingly difficult not to get inbetween it and the mother. In this case however the mother really didn't care and remained lounging on the grass until the calf got the message and stopped running along the track.
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| Ex multi end to end cyclist |
Crossing the canal from Gargrave I stopped and ate a sandwich on a bench, soon to be joined by a chatty 60 year old cyclist. I'd have thought him fifty at most but he happily informed me he'd cycled Land's End to John o'Groats for the third time on his 60th and was currently looking for advice for next year when he was planning to walk Santiago.
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| River Aire towards Malhem |
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| Malhem Cove in the distance |
I reached Malham after a long 5 miles and found the field full of students walking the Pennine Way as part of a course. Keeping my distance I set up pitch and since it was incredibly sunny hand-washed and hung up to dry an outfit for tomorrow. A laundry stop is now badly needed.
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