Mick:
2 April (0655-1235)
Distance: 16.5 miles (Tot: 251) (Before Brantingham to by Shiptonthorpe)
Weather: overcast, some light showers, warm, bit breezy
Gayle:
Easter Sunday, 24 April (0810-1305)
Distance: 14 miles
Weather: high cloud, a few sunny intervals, warm again
This was the day that Mick described, in a text message to me, as being ‘much pimpled’, which, once translated from the language of iPhone auto-correct, turned out to mean that it was much lumpier. Sure enough, as I set out on my day I was soon huffing and puffing up a violent undulation. I don’t think that the photo represents how steep it was. Or maybe it wasn’t that steep, but after a couple of weeks with barely more than a few dozen contour lines between them, even a slight incline seemed steep:
The road signs did seem to agree with my assessment of the terrain:
The lumps did make for some good views, and with the haze being significantly less than the previous day I could clearly make out the Humber below me.
Later in the day the views were over endless farmland, with the rape standing out against the lush greenness.
Mick had enthused about the shape and generally pleasing look of this wide, shallow valley, and it was indeed a nice place to be on a sunny day. Admittedly the photos make it look rather non-descript, but as farmland goes, it really was quite pleasant.
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