Friday evening and a request from Reg for a bivy spot. I suggested the barn that we'd used for the 2019 winter bivy.
That didn't go as planned - he'd had to share it with a couple of dead sheep! Yet he still he was waiting for me at the café in Settle. After a bit of a chat with the shop owner we headed out into the grey.
Knowing Reg's love of our industrial past I remembered the Hoffman Kiln at Langcliffe, cue Reg looking wistful ...
I'd only actually looked at the kiln itself before but there's quite a bit of other stuff to check out.
Having sent him to the top of a hill for his bivy he wasn't keen on much hill climbing so we headed up the dale to Horton. The first café was shut (it was raining) as was the second (long term serious illness). Fortunately I knew of a third - that was open. Just as well as the rain turned torrential so we tarried a while. Then a while more.
Eventually we headed back out and yet further up the dale. The weather wasn't any better.
Now Reg also has an interest in caves so we headed to the entrance to Calf Holes.
Still rather wet!
Time to start heading back and the last real climb of the day. That didn't go as planned ...
Then it was mostly downhill back to Horton.
The rain was now even heavier and we just headed back to Settle and another café. All too soon it was time to leave our hero to another evening entertaining the regulars at The Talbot Arms.
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