Start/Finish : Rudby Church
Total length : 6.47 miles
Time taken : 2.5 Hours
A quick walk to get us walking again. Slightly longer than expected
Start/Finish : 54°25.187′N, 1°11.487′W (Lord Stones Cafe)
Total length : 9.3 miles
Time taken : 4:15 Hours
Min Elevation : 638ft
Max Elevation : 1384ft
Total Ascent : 2200ft
Well it was decided we would do the same walk but start at 7am (ish) and try to beat the previous time. Well we got going at roughly 7:15am and completed the walk in 4hr 15 mins!! No problems with cows this time and boy it was a very hot morning. Finished off at Lord Stones for food and drinks again.
Start/Finish : 54°25.187′N, 1°11.487′W (Lord Stones Cafe)
Total length : 9.5 miles
Time taken : 5 Hours
Min Elevation : 638ft
Max Elevation : 1384ft
Total Ascent : 2200ft – our biggest ever!
This was a circular walk from Lord Stones Cafe over to the Wainstones and across Cold Moor. I hadn’t realised how hard going this walk was going to be. It was up and down and then back up straight away with hardly any nice easy flat parts! This was out slowest walk we have ever done. Still had time to grab a couple of caches (Wainstones and Sit and see)and drop off our Gecko travelbug.
It was a strange day weather wise, it started off in mist and about 5C and finished in glorious sun 20C+. There were several time we didn’t think we could finish this walk and there were about 20 cows that didn’t want us to either. With 2 miles left to go a herd of cow started to stamp and kept blocking our path. It wasn’t a fun experience and the only way passed was to climb over some barbed wire fences and run over a field.. damn scary cows!
Up to Lord Stones for a pint and chip butties… shattered!!!
Cold Moor Panorama
Elevation of walk
We are lucky to have Fairy Dell on our doorstep and a couple of minutes walk away. Well at the weekend we decided to go for an 8am walk in the snow and to go sledging (on Chicken feed plastic sacks)
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°25.187′N, 1°11.487′W (Lord Stones Cafe)
Total length : 6.91 miles
Time taken : 3 Hours
Min Elevation : 375ft
Max Elevation : 1337ft
Total Ascent : 1528ft
This was supposed to be a quick blast out to blow away some cobwebs after both having bad colds. The walk took in a couple of caches im on top of the world mar – LWW 2 and Riser which we found a couple of Travel Bugs as well. The walk took us along the Cleveland Way over Carlton Moor and then through the woods on our way into Faceby. Once in Faceby we took the “short cut” back up to the Cleveland Way heading towards Little Bonny Cliff and Faceby Bank. After strudgling up a path that was basically a stream and mud we then came to the worst bit. An almost vertical scramble through the woods until we hit the main walk again. Once out of the woods it was a fairly easy walk back to Lord Stones for Mugs of coffee and chip butties.
Photos from the walk
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°18.701′N, 1°16.889′W
Total length : 8 miles
Time taken : too long!!!
Min Elevation : 519ft
Max Elevation : 1227ft
Total Ascent : 1115ft
Well this was an interesting day walking/caching. Was supposed to be a quick 2 hours 5-6 mile blast while taking in 6 or 7 caches. It all started off nicely after a steep climb of 700ft in the 1st 1.3 miles to cache number 1 Jurassic Limestone which had stunning views. Shame I went to the bottom of the quarry 1st and the cache was at the top. Then it was a nice yomp over the heather to get back on track to find Rich Life again wonderful views. Then had a jog over to 4Candles which was supposed to be the start of a 3 cache series. 45 mins later I couldn’t find the bugger (I have since found out from the owner that it has vanished!!!!!!). During the hunt I stumbled into a very wet marshy area almost up to my knees, so feet, boots and socks were soaking wet and I mean soaking wet!!! Disheartened I wandered over to Close to Sneck another DNF!!! The owner confirms it is there and it can be seen from 30 yards… great I must be blind!
So off I pop to Yorkshire’s Finest didn’t make it as my damn phone ran out of battery life, so not a DNF. So here I was in the middle of nowhere and lost lost lost…. Lucky for me I managed to stumble across a path which lead back up to the Cleveland Way and I could back track the way I came. this added on several miles and meant I had to go back up hill before I could jog back down to Kepwick.
Jumped in the car did 10 mins of recharging the phone and then decided to go get my last cache of the day Monumental and boy it was monumental. A monument at the top of a hill which marks the death of John Henry Boyer Warner, who died aged 42 in 1891. Amazing place shame it is so overgrown.
TB taken from Rich Life – “Gunnaur, India” Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug
Funny old day caching…… but worth it.
Panorama from Jurassic Limestone
Panorama from Rich Life
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°22.037′N, 1°17.888′W
Total length : 6.3 miles
Time taken : 2 Hrs 30 mins
Min Elevation : 516ft
Max Elevation : 963ft
Total Ascent : 1957.7ft
Osmotherley Circular Walk
Short Circular walk round a short section of the “Cleveland Way” passed the BT microwave radio station. Then on the way back head passed “Cod Beck Reservoir” and onto Osmotherley.
During the walk we found 4 Geocaches
Ossie Back Lane – a Nano but fairly easy find
An Aerial View
lyke wake one in this one we found Mummy Ellie
Happy Birthday ‘Fishy’ !! ( North Yorkshire) in this one we found 12 Days of Caching 2007 Geocoin
Walk
Start/Finish : 54°32.030′N, 0°45.165′W
Total length : 16.5 miles
Time taken : 6 Hrs
Min Elevation : 0ft
Max Elevation : 358ft
Total Ascent : 2938ft
Did this walk a few years ago and it is a toughie. Fantastic views along the coast from Runswick Bay to Whitby and back again. The walk is from the top car park in Runswick Bay to the “Whale Bone” in Whitby, which you must touch before having lunch and heading back to Runswick. It takes you along part of the Cleveland Way through Kettleness, along the coast to Sandsend and up by the Whitby Golf club to Whitby.
Took in 3 caches during the walk, there were 2 in Runswick, but we were knackered after the walk and will do those another day. Also several more in Whitby, but today was about the walk and not hunting for caches.
First cache of the day was about 5 miles in just before Sandsend. THE SANDSEND TRAIL (NTH YORKS) was a nice find, shame I took the had route by going over the top of a hill instead of using the path round which I discovered after the cache find. Took a Travel Bug – Engineer at altitude which needs to be placed in a high cache next time.
Then it was over to Whitby for the Whale Bone, lunch and then Captain Cook. We went over put our bags down and pretended to look for something in the bag. Took from under the nose of a dog, its owner and 2 people chatting in the bench near it. Brilliant cache location.
Next up was Bram Stokers Whitby Cache this was a virtual cache where we had to take a photo of the bench. Bram Stoker’s memorial seat – placed there to commemorate the spot from which he used to let Whitby’s views inspire him to write the classic Dracula!
Then the a “not found” Whitby Pavilion Was only placed a couple of days ago, but we just couldn’t find it. Time to go back the way we came.
