12.5 miles
A good turn out this week, 7 of us Des, Paul, Darren, Ash, Screw, Dave and our very own ‘Ice Queen’ Mark (who hasn’t been with us for a while after working on the ‘Dancing on Ice’ set) We set off from Kilnsey with a short steep climb at the starting point of the old drovers trail from Kilnsey to Malham, better known as Mastiles Lane (sends shivers down Dazza’s spine every time we mention it) after about 0.5 of a mile we turned left onto a bridleway which took us across open moor land over Green Haw Hill, to Skirethorn Lane we crossed the road onto Malham moor lane down to a very boggy Boss Moor. From her we dropped down to Winterburn Resevoir before a long energy sapping (against the wind) climb up onto Weets Top. (time for a mars bar) Feeling refreshed we dropped off Weets turning right when we reached the road passing Lee Gate on our way back to Mastiles Lane again turning right in the direction of Kilnsey. Now with the wind on our backs the few climbs that took us to the top of Kilnsey Moor didn’t seem too bad (‘did they Mark??') ‘I must admit though that the person responsible for the signs must have only had 2 miles to Kilnsey signs because we passed one, then 0.5 of a mile further on we passed another’ exactly the same'. Time for the fun to begin, a 1.75 mile rocky & fast descent all the way back to the Tennant Arms in Kilnsey for a much deserved pint. (or a little bit of a walk for Ash who got a puncture about 0.5 of a mile from the end, & couldn’t be bothered to fix it)