Wow, what an interesting event!!!! The weather was touch and go, or as many thought, no go!!! But we caught a break and were lucky!!! thursday saw the main roads to Whitby all open for the 1st time in a week, but the drive in brought to realisation the quantity of snow on the moors, at least a 3 ft for miles and miles and miles. Fortunately our information that the coast was a bit better proved right! But it was literally only the fields closest to the coast that were passable, only a mile inland and it was waste deep snow covering the moors and thats extremely tough going!!!
Not to be daunted we completed the reces on Friday and formed a plan for the weekend, but for the first time in the year my legs felt like lead with no climbing, just miles of ploughing through snow-how can something so light and fluffy be so damned hard work to walk through??? And so everyone arrived safe checked into their apartments and very soon we were heading off into Whitby for a few cheeky beers and in search of some music and some dancing, and so it all began
Saturday morning saw the sun out and a lot of the snow had vanished! so off we went, A short mile over the moors was fun involving crawling and trailbreaking and lots of effort through knee deep snow, and a few snow balls too. And soon we were on the coast but the melting snow brought its own problems and all the streams were rivers, and the rivers torrents!!! So at Bogle hole the group headed along the cliff to avoid the streams on the beach whilst a few brave soles indulged themselves in some coasteering!!! But such exploits combined with some stunning view meant that it was nearly dark when we made it back to Whitby and the Duke of York! Then its time to do it all over again. Shower, room party dinner, pub, dancing, more dancing sleep breakfast and another walk.... Brilliant weekend, thanks for keeping whitby special, till next time X
Not to be daunted we completed the reces on Friday and formed a plan for the weekend, but for the first time in the year my legs felt like lead with no climbing, just miles of ploughing through snow-how can something so light and fluffy be so damned hard work to walk through??? And so everyone arrived safe checked into their apartments and very soon we were heading off into Whitby for a few cheeky beers and in search of some music and some dancing, and so it all began
Saturday morning saw the sun out and a lot of the snow had vanished! so off we went, A short mile over the moors was fun involving crawling and trailbreaking and lots of effort through knee deep snow, and a few snow balls too. And soon we were on the coast but the melting snow brought its own problems and all the streams were rivers, and the rivers torrents!!! So at Bogle hole the group headed along the cliff to avoid the streams on the beach whilst a few brave soles indulged themselves in some coasteering!!! But such exploits combined with some stunning view meant that it was nearly dark when we made it back to Whitby and the Duke of York! Then its time to do it all over again. Shower, room party dinner, pub, dancing, more dancing sleep breakfast and another walk.... Brilliant weekend, thanks for keeping whitby special, till next time X
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