After a couple of months lay-off, started the Teddy Tours up again with a gentle one to Gordale and Janets Foss wheresthepath link Set off into a gale and torrential rain but knew the cave at the foss would provide shelter, the road from Gargrave to Malham was flooded across in a couple of places but the vans a diesel so it was a steady chug through and by Malham the rain was easing off. Parked at the bottom of Gordale and walked up the valley
and along to what appears to be the end
even though I knew what was round the corner it still takes you by surprise
and walking in brings the top fall into view
with a close up of the top fall
It was still blowing a gale so turned round and followed the stream down for 1/2 a mile to Janets Foss
with the cave mouth on the right looking upstream
looking out the cave with flash turned off
and with the flash on
cave was dry and no wind so used the windshield as a table area to warm up some of last nights home made chilli and rice, with an Australian Shiraz, followed by a wind fall apple crumble and a brew using an Optimus Crux folder 3000 watt stove and the Optimus Terra Solo Cookset
looking down stream from the cave mouth
Todays tour brought memories back of sleeping in the cave with Brenda over 25 years ago, wed push biked there and set up camp for the night building a small fire in the entrance and what with the wind and the roof shape the smoke was blowing in along the roof under itself and out the entrance, so the cave was 1/2 full of smoke like an inversion layer, which meant when you were laying on the floor in a sleeping bag you were in clear air. Brenda woke up in the night and turned the torch on to find hundreds of spiders hanging on threads about an inch below the smoke, Brenda does not like Spiders so was not amused by me saying there not coughing get back to sleep ! just thought Id share cheers all Danny
and along to what appears to be the end
even though I knew what was round the corner it still takes you by surprise
and walking in brings the top fall into view
with a close up of the top fall
It was still blowing a gale so turned round and followed the stream down for 1/2 a mile to Janets Foss
with the cave mouth on the right looking upstream
looking out the cave with flash turned off
and with the flash on
cave was dry and no wind so used the windshield as a table area to warm up some of last nights home made chilli and rice, with an Australian Shiraz, followed by a wind fall apple crumble and a brew using an Optimus Crux folder 3000 watt stove and the Optimus Terra Solo Cookset
looking down stream from the cave mouth
Todays tour brought memories back of sleeping in the cave with Brenda over 25 years ago, wed push biked there and set up camp for the night building a small fire in the entrance and what with the wind and the roof shape the smoke was blowing in along the roof under itself and out the entrance, so the cave was 1/2 full of smoke like an inversion layer, which meant when you were laying on the floor in a sleeping bag you were in clear air. Brenda woke up in the night and turned the torch on to find hundreds of spiders hanging on threads about an inch below the smoke, Brenda does not like Spiders so was not amused by me saying there not coughing get back to sleep ! just thought Id share cheers all Danny
