Just made a Dales Way photo gallery. Please do check it out! Looking forward to bringing you along with the walk…
Dales Way, less than 2 weeks to go!
Hard to believe it’s less than 2 weeks, till Bugsy, Mark G and myself do The Dales Way! Which runs for 80 miles from Ilkley in West Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria.
The small section in red, is Dales Way Link – Harrogate to Ilkley. Which we did this week. Which can you can tell from the name of the walk, it took us from Harrogate to Ilkley. Covering a distance of 17.73 miles.
So please do keep watching this website… For more updates… It’s happening and very soon!!
Also make sure you follow me at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine. Where I will post our route at end of each day, plus photos!
Dales Way Link – Harrogate to Ilkley! TICK!!
Let’s start with the only thing that pissed me off, during the whole day. That was LNER! We picked the 8.42am service from Grantham (GRA) to Harrogate (HGT). So we did not have to change at Leeds. So what did they go and do?!? But cancel the part running from Leeds to Harrogate.
Which also did piss me off. Since it was the first time, I had used a train this year. The railways really do not help themselves!
Also then found out information on Class 800s are well crap, kept telling us the train was still running all the way to Harrogate!
Right anyway moving on from that…. The walk was amazing. I loved each and every part of it! The weather could not have been better. Bugsy was so good the whole day! Love the young man he’s turned into!
The walk took us from Harrogate to Ilkley, following one the Dales Way Links, covering a distance of 17.73 miles.
You can check out the route at www.strava.com/activities/8826320475
More photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/dales-way/
You will be pleased to hear LNER was great on the way back! We went First Class, since it only cost around £8 more!
The Dales Way next month?!?!?
All going well next month (April), Bugsy, Mark G (house mate) and myself will be walking The Dales Way! It will be my biggest adventure, since doing the End to End cycle back in 2009!
The Dales Way runs for 80 miles from Ilkley in West Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria. We will be doing the whole walk in one go! Not like other long walks, that I’ve done, which have been done over weeks, months and some even years!
So please make sure you give both www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine and www.strava.com/athletes/bugsythedog a follow!
Walking The Dales Way in 2023!
Next year, Bugsy, Mark G (house mate) and myself will be walking The Dales Way! It will be my biggest adventure, since doing the End to End cycle back in 2009!
The Dales Way runs for 80 miles from Ilkley in West Yorkshire to Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria. We will be doing the whole walk in one go! Not like other long walks, that I’ve done, which have been done over weeks, months and some even years!
In the next week, or so, we’re going to do a test day. Doing one of link routes. We have picked the Harrogate one, which covers a distance of 16.5 miles!
So looking forward to this, BIG adventure with him!!