We had a great training walk on Good Friday, from my house in Skipton up to Malham following the route once at Aireville from the start to Check point 1.
Made very good time to Gargrave, where James found a tree swing and had to play while myself and Steve checked the map, pity he only nearly fell in though. The next section was interesting and James managed to find another rope swing! The path was easy to follow and well defined, until we crossed a wall (which is not on Steves OS Map) had to check my map to make sure the Pennine Way was just on the next brow.
James tried to play pooh sticks on the next bridge, but was on his own so not much of a challenge. The walk up through Airton towards Malham was very nice but getting hot, glad we left at 7am. On the last section into Malham James seemed to injure his ankle, which slowed us some what, but 3 hours 10 minutes for the section plus 2km means we where on 18 hour pace most of the way.
Steve tried on the walk to say he wasn't getting his air cut for fundraising to which I reminded him if its on the blog he has to do it!!!!
The walk was followed by a team meeting at Steve's house warming on Saturday, which after we had planned the night walk for next weekend and practised the quiz questions turned very interesting! A conversation about Easter eggs and Jesus somehow turned into Steve saying what L***** p*** (i'll let you ask him what he thought he heard.
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