Teddy Tours Acoras Scar

Set off early this morning Skipton Grassington Pately Bridge Ramsgill and parked at Lofthouse

ignore the blue P sign it's now a private car park

through Studfold farm and onto the bridlway, looking back down Nidderdale

 lots of Bunnys about

and there seems to be lots of Moles at Moor House Farm

looking back down the Bridlway

and back again

the first shooting cabin comes into view, there's a side shed open but the cabins locked tight

plod on and look back again

and the way forward

passed a damp bit with some good tracks (Stoat ?)

looking back again

and to the side (northish)

the top cabin comes into view

passing check that it's unlocked and on a chain and hook great ! pass to have a look at Acoros Scar

steep it's one in stupid

hoping I can get back and remembering a tale I heard about someone Flint (arrowhead) prospecting this way found a skeleton in one of the peat hags that turned out to be a Pedlar complete with leather satchel of sewing needles pins haberdashery etc. from the Pack Horse trail days

made the bottom safely and started to follow the stream down

don't recognise these

and there were lots of these flying about

started to climb back out

not as steep this far down stream

then the top cabin comes back into view

I bet some of the TGO challengers would have liked this

and what a change to not be locked, there were a couple of boards blown off where it was a touch rotten at the back corner so I straightened some scrap nails and did a repair before Teddy opened the Bistro

Lavazza drip coffee, South African Pinotage Shiraz, home made buttered  bread, watercress, baby vine tomatoes, and a home made local beef, beefburger with falafel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel which is a great dried camping food and beefburger rusk substitute and some Nandoes peri peri ketchup

given 10 Ft. of snow I could have played at being Shackleton. Looking out over Acoras Scar to Great Whernside it looked like an Alien Invasion was brewing

with the Lenticula ? clouds

back down the track

with the ditches in bloom

 and at one point a bubbling Ocher spring

this caught my eye at Mark 002 almost like a circle ?

left the track just below here to explore Blayshaw Gill

I presume this is the piped water from Amgram and Scar house reservoirs

but what a wild camp find

get in late and out early and plenty of Foxgloves flowering on the gill side

and a few Butterflies about

passing through a field gate the gatestone was a work of practical art

came out back onto the Bridleway and it's always a relief to see the van still there.

just thought I'd share, cheers all Danny

Tag Bale Hill

Thursday 19-5-11 Drove through Grassington (again) well I can see the hills from the kitchen window so they have a pull, and parked in the picnic area at Grimwith reservoir

I've had a couple of e-mails saying the photo's are small  ! but if you left click on them they should open in a new window, larger, then blue return arrow top left to return to Blog.
straight out of the car park the bankings were covered in wild flowers

and Fractals

Down to the reservoir and along the dam wall

with lots of squeaking and whistling from the Oystercatcher mob

followed the track round

and over the bridge at Blea Gill

in the woods over the bridge I spotted a few of these

carried on to the bridge at Gate Up Gill where I turned left along the old mine track

looking back down the track

carrying on the ruins of the mine come into view

with what looks like a winding wheel pit

as its inline with this open shaft ! one and two and three and four and - Clunk Splash !

looking up the valley from the mine

but I dropped down to the beck to find this

well I'm writing this so it was safe !

the valley to the left took my eye

so followed the small stream along

to find a hidden jem around the top corner

it sounded as good as it looks

looking back down the gill

the Bear found some Ocher slime

and some scum on the water

then made a Lavazza drip coffee

dinner was home made bread Doves wholewheat flour with a handfull of yellow sultanas and some orange calandula Marrigold petals baked in. With a tin of smoked Brisling in T sauce and not shown a sliced vine tomatoe on top with a glass of Fynbos South African Shiraz, it's in a Kumal bottle because on my last stock up shop for small bottles of wine they'd gone into plastic bottles ! so I opened a big bottle and refilled an empty from the last tour.

while sat in the sun listning to the waterfall there was a tit tit tit as I was being scolded by

I presume it had a nest near by as it kept flying up into the banking, but I didn't disturb it by having a look

I climbed up and out of the waterfall 001 Mark on the map and it's equally hidden from above

with just behind a ruin

but how did they get here this is the view the other way

as I headed over to Tag Bale Hill on the way back with Pendle Hill on the right horizon

with a view back down to the reservoir from here

I dropped down passing a fossilised stone car !

it was then onto the track around the res. with a quick pan of the camera and x2 clicks of the shutter

here's a crop from the original size of the second click

back along the dam wall and the final photo

Just thought I'd share, cheers all Danny