Saturday We embarked on our 2nd training hike at 8:15 AM For our journey to Pateley Bridge Post Office where we would start out Expedition, we arrived in Pateley Bridge about 9:45 (ish) where we then discovered we had none of the following items:
- Matches
- Survival Bag
On finding this out I rushed to the local store and purchased the matches and Kevin lent us a Survival Bag, after sorting this out we then set off for our 1st meeting point at Boothwaite.
We had a small break at Gouthwaite Reservoir where we (Sam and Me) were amazed at how much water went through and at how big it was. We then arrived at the 1st checkpoint (Boothwaite) where we met Kevin, had some lunch and discussed who should navigate next.
I chose to navigate -BIG MISTAKE. We continued up a path to find out we had missed our turning by a good kilometre or so and when we figured out where we were, we were a good few hours behind schedule - (Bad times) but we found a new route - (Good times) so we then followed that route up to a car park in the middle of nowhere to discuss our new route with Kevin.
After Kevin knew where we were going we then set off for our next Checkpoint which we made in good time. It was arounnd this time that I then discovered I'm scared of cows. Which is a bad time saying I'm on a path full of them.
We continued making steady progress up to Brown Bank Road where we discussed our route with Kevin. After a few more miles it was decided that we wouldn't make the campsite in time for our booking so we got a lift, from Kevin, to the edge of Masham where we walked to the Black Swan camp site and set up our tents.
After a discussion with Kevin we started to get food ready for our tea, Chicken Korma, upon starting this we then discovered we were missing the following items:
- Cutlery
- Tea towels (to dry up)
- milk and cereal for breakfast.
After addressing these issue's we went into Masham to see where the Breweries were. Upon arriving back at site we had some soft beverages and then went to sleep.
Sunday
The next morning we woke up, packed away and headed into Masham for our Brewery visits.We visited both the Black Sheep
and Theakstons Breweries
where we learnt many Techniques in the industry for brewing Beer with a five mile walk in between even though the Breweries are only 500 yards apart. (This was planned).
We then started our final walk (4 miles) to where we would meet Barrie for our lift home.
Ryan
