A 5km walk on a hot sunny day with Ian Rawe, Andrew and Helen.Route: leaving the car at a car park by a café on the moor road just under the Cow and Calf and climbing up onto them. Then, continuing along to an obvious highpoint and then cairn on Ilkley Crags. Deciding here to continue on a muddy track to join a stone flagged path to the Twelve Apostles. Retracing the route, pausing for Ian to rescue a lamb stuck in mud and then diverting right to take a more direct route, just to the east of the Cow and Calf, and back.
Conditions: hot and still, a couple of days before a forecast heatwave.
Pub: Bar T’at, Ilkley for Kirkstall Three Swords, Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, Ilkley Mary Jane and Saltaire South Island and lunch, joined by Neil Sedgley.
