Archives for May 2015

25th May 2015 Roseberry Topping is sometimes known as The Yorkshire Matterhorn!  Well, if you squint enough from the right angle, there is a sort of resemblance.  It reaches the mighty height of 320m (1,050ft).  Nonetheless it is prominent from afar, detached as it is from the main bulk of the Continue Reading

23rd May 2015 Today’s trip comprised naked list ticking.  Two “Marilyns” neither having previously encountered the soles of my feet – with a morning walk and an afternoon walk. What is a Marilyn I might sense some say?  Well it is any hill in the British Isles with a prominence of at least Continue Reading

10th May 2015 From Hazelgill Farm up the bridleway under the railway line and up towards High Dolphinsty. I had Jet with me today but we saw no boar. There were lots of sheep and so I kept Jet on the lead as we went through the land by the farm. After the initial steep rise the gradient Continue Reading

4th May 2015 Another day spent bagging a couple of Marilyns. Because of access conditions, I did not bring Jet on this occasion. As I left the house I had the definite feeling that Jet was communicating a degree of disappointment at being left behind. The first target was Hoove. The forecast Continue Reading

2nd May 2015 Wensleydale (and particularly Upper Wensleydale) is a part of the Dales much neglected by me.  OK I went there last year when driving some of the route taken by Le Tour.  But before then I cannot really recall when I was last there. That also means, of course, that the hills Continue Reading