Met EdS in Threshfield at the Grassington turn off this morning and drove up past Kilnsey Crag, then left along the Arncliffe road to park below Sleets Gill bridge.
We followed Sleets Gill up passing the cave and onto the first plateau
after another uphill slog on the level we passed a glacial erratic and let Teddy have a photo shoot
looking back after the next uphill at the erratic
to find Dowkabottom cave we climbed the next rise to look down, as on the same level it's hard to find,
and found the cave and a circle SD 95128 68884
back down with Ed having a look into the cave
before dinner mine home made bread with Blue Wensleydale and onion with a brew on a Swiss volcano
run on a Swiss alcohol gel stove which gave no problems. The pancake was another matter though.
It was that cold even with the gas inverted it would not get the cast iron frying pan hot enough to cook.Ed saved the day
with a multi-fuel primus running on panel wipe which was that hot it nearly burnt it
the next problem was the squeezey honey was frozen solid
climbing back up the pillars on the horizon drew us on
at the pillers and by now my freshly charged camera batteries gave up the ghost on changing them they were freezing cold
but the ones from my pocket were fine so kept camera inside jacket when not using
and the view from them
looking back on the pillars as we climbed higher
and the view ahead
here with some paper map work and some electronic map voodoo
we found an ancient track to follow back down to the motors
with the final view up the dale towards Arncliffe
another great day out thanks Ed for the company and the pancake rescue
cheers all Danny
We followed Sleets Gill up passing the cave and onto the first plateau
after another uphill slog on the level we passed a glacial erratic and let Teddy have a photo shoot
looking back after the next uphill at the erratic
to find Dowkabottom cave we climbed the next rise to look down, as on the same level it's hard to find,
and found the cave and a circle SD 95128 68884
back down with Ed having a look into the cave
before dinner mine home made bread with Blue Wensleydale and onion with a brew on a Swiss volcano
run on a Swiss alcohol gel stove which gave no problems. The pancake was another matter though.
It was that cold even with the gas inverted it would not get the cast iron frying pan hot enough to cook.Ed saved the day
with a multi-fuel primus running on panel wipe which was that hot it nearly burnt it
the next problem was the squeezey honey was frozen solid
climbing back up the pillars on the horizon drew us on
at the pillers and by now my freshly charged camera batteries gave up the ghost on changing them they were freezing cold
but the ones from my pocket were fine so kept camera inside jacket when not using
and the view from them
looking back on the pillars as we climbed higher
and the view ahead
here with some paper map work and some electronic map voodoo
we found an ancient track to follow back down to the motors
with the final view up the dale towards Arncliffe
another great day out thanks Ed for the company and the pancake rescue
cheers all Danny
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