Danby Wiske to Ingleby Cross

Another beautiful day with a light breeze made very pleasant conditions for walking. The eight members of the A party set off from Danby Wiske and before very long were confronted by a couple of fields of chest high rape to be negotiated. Well done Mick for 'swimming' across the field and making a trail for us shorter folk to follow! Fortunately it wasn't in flower and the seed heads were quite soft. A week or two earlier or a week or two later and it would have been a very unpleasant experience.

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The A party deviated from the main route and paid a visit to Harsley Castle. This is now used as a farm building and a very friendly farmer allowed us to look inside and to refill our water bottles.

As well as historic buildings Malcolm did his best to find us the juiciest nettles in Yorkshire but we let him off as he and Mick did a great job of finding some very obscure paths. Eventually we crossed the very busy A19 and made our way to Ingleby Cross . The walk should nave ended here but once again the only pub in the village was shut so we followed the forest track to Osmotherley where pubs, cups of tea, cakes and sandwiches were eagerly devoured by all.