A 3.5km stroll, both suffering colds, after staying 2 nights in Kettlewell.Route: impulsively leaving the car in marked small car park in a disused quarry (GR883 388) and walking 20m west to backtrack through a gate on a walled track, turning right onto a board walk across flooded marsh. Keeping right at a first junction and then looping round, gingerly crossing a couple of places where the board walk was flooded (perhaps after 36 hours of heavy rain), to take another right and approach the tarn, before bending left to two old buildings (and seeing two deer) climbing onto dry land and narrow road right to Malham Tarn House.
Bending left uphill onto a path across fields dropping back down onto the road and passing a number of somewhat shabby cottages to reach the walled track and return to the start.
Conditions: after 2 days of rain, a dry if cool cloudy October day.
Pub: the Victoria, Kirkby Malham, for Craven Brew Company, Blonde and VIP imperial porter (6.5%).
