An 8km damp stroll with Angie and Alistair, the day before T’s 60th birthday, staying at the Aysgarth Falls Hotel.
Route: leaving the hotel and walking down Church Bank to admire the waterfalls, in spate, and then back up some steps to the church, joined by A&A. After looking at the church, continuing east on a footpath across fields, rising and falling with the landscape but generally staying some height above the River Ure before briefly joining the A684 to use a road bridge to cross a stream and then return to the riverside. Pausing to examine the submerged stepping stones before crossing back across sodden fields to join a track heading back to the road but diverting left on a footpath to arrive in West Witton along a narrow snicket.
Conditions: a constant threat of rain but only really a short shower near the end.
Pub: the Fox, West Witton, for Yorkshire Dales Brewery Askrigg Ale and Bainbridge Blonde and lunch.
