Category: Washburn Valley
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A trip around a couple of very low reservoirs
Our weekend walk last weekend was a trip around Swinsty and Fewston. It’s not rained for about 2 months and the reservoirs are very low. We had a great conversation on our walk about how we might have to fight our neighbours for a pint of water if it doesn’t rain soon. Louise, Rachel and…
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Six Dales trail part 2.
We walked the second part of the six Dales trail today from Blubberhouses to Pateley Bridge. Starting off in Blubberhouses we followed the river Washburn up to Thruscross Reservoir. We skirted the eastern bank of the reservoir before walking up the valley towards the water tower. From the water tower we headed downhill and then…
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Six Dales Trail. Part 1
The six Dales trail is a 38 mile walk from Otley to Middleham. Devised by a small team from Otley ‘Walkers are Welcome’ and brilliantly described in the book of the same name by John Sparshatt. I think the walk is designed to be walked over 2 days. But I’ve split it into 4 sections…
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Lindley Wood reservoir on a beautiful spring day
This was a new walk for me as I’ve driven past Lindley Wood reservoir many times but never actually walked around it. Lindley Wood reservoir is the first reservoir you come to in the Washburn Valley when you leave Otley. There isn’t a circular walk around the reservoir like the others but there are plenty…
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A new route of mud and destruction
I’m still laughing about the walk we did yesterday. The mud we encountered was on a par with our trip up Yokenthwaite. Looking back it was a little bonkers. I had sold it to the team as another reservoir walk, but we were exploring 2 reservoirs that we’d not yet been too. It was another…
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Spring is coming.
It’s been an unusual week. At the beginning of the week it was warm and I spent some time outside enjoying the sunshine. Then the temperature has changed and it’s returned to being cold and very miserable today. I had originally planned to do a new walk today, but the weather and a stinky cold…
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Thruscross Reservoir
This weekend’s walk was around Thruscross reservoir. Thruscross seems to be one of the lesser walked reservoirs in the Washburn valley. It’s just north-West of Fewston Reservoir and the Yorkshire water parking permit also lets you park at Thruscross. If you want to walk away from the crowds this is the one for you. The…
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Winter wonderland at Fewston
Rachel and I have been unable to co-ordinate a walk this weekend so Zara and I went on an adventure. Our original plan was to head towards Haworth and do a walk there, but it was -10 overnight and I don’t know how clear of snow the roads are. We changed our plans and instead…