Day 6. Osmotherley to Clay Bank Top
Sarah: Up and up then plunging down, then more up and down over and over and over. We have a drinking song for this for today now!
The higher we climb the more cider we drink
The more cider we drink the better we feel
We'd better get over the aches and the pains
'Cause we'll get up tomorrow and do it again!
There were great things today - we saw the sun.......... all day!!! WE also glipsed our ultimate destination, the North Sea, misty and way off in the distance from our highest points. Best of all - we are finally up on the North York Moors where I have spent many wonderful times hiking in the past with my late husband. The Secret Garden book was set here and it a magical place of dipping and diving birds, calf high, springy heather with tiny bell-like purple flowers covering and clinging to the hillsides despite the fierce winds so fierce we were nearly blown over.
This morning, the Coast to Coast joined a National long distance path called the Cleavelean Way where we moved steadily eastward on Yorkstone slabs about 3' x 18" somehow inlaid onto the rollercoaster like moors making the path easy to follow even if the mists swirl and sweep over the entire hillside.
I found today physically draining - my phone app said we climbed the equivalent of 17 floors - 1,700 feet and covered 11.5 miles. But we did it ! And my goodness, the hot bath I've just had did wonders.
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Sisters: 69 miles. Blisters: 5
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