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