A fantastic early morning spin in beautiful Wharfedale. Cold and starlit, damp roads and a nice tailwind. Gentle pace, sat alongside the indominatable Mr Milward is a most pleasant way to enter the magnificent Yorkshire Dales. The tailwind meant the usually tough Barden Scale and Plantation climbs were taken with ease. (at last). A speedy tailwind descent into the picturesque Burnsall allowed the following climb of the Thorpe turn off to be taken with the same ease.
The light of the day was now in full stream and seemed to be concentrated into the low slung clouds from the daybreak behind us giving intensely pure colours of barns and the typically rutted steep sided fields.
Deciding to go onto Kettlewell instead of the programmed Arncliffe, the road turned us to the view down the valley with the infamous `Park Rash` seeming to be baring its backside and teasing us with a `come on there`s a tailwind, have a go at up me 1 in 3`. No! Turning around into what was our tailwind wasn`t as bad as it threatened to be. Trundelling along the back lane is a treat that cannot be undersestimated at 8.00am on a Wednesday Morning in Nov. We passed the Kettelwell rush-hour was well past its hiatas and the 4 vehicles were well down the valley. Joy.
Streets of San Fransisco into Grassington is always a breather! Up and through the pretty Market village past the `upside down sculpture` took us into Hebden with the massive 2 children `walking bus` nearly causing us to brake. The ride continues in a similar manner for a further 20 miles so what else is there to say but.... I LIVE IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON EARTH !!!!
