A Nice Suprise!

Short amusing story!

A few years back we had a couple of lads staying in our Guest House who had travelled from Italy.  They were here in Settle to walk the famous Yorkshire Three Peaks, it is one of our USP’s is to provide our guests with a full Yorkshire breakfast (should they wish) before this challenge! It was around 5.30am in the summer months and unfortunaty the weather was looking a little grey and cloudy (yes its hard to believe!)

As a host a little chat at breakfast with our guests normally can involve talking about the weather! Then came the quote from one of them “oh it will be fine we are low down here in Settle, but once we climb the first mountain we will rise above the clouds and it will be blue skies and we will have amazing views”………ummm not sure it did as they were a one night booking and we didn’t see them again after their walk to ask!

However well this turned out it could have been true ?

Fast forward a few years and months and yesterday we at King Billy (with a friend) set off just to do a walk up to Little Ingleborough on a circular walk. We were joking as we left Clapham to head up the road to Newby Cote and climb up the southern slopes. 

The weather was some what grey and light cloud cover. However we soon felt the sun was trying to break through and within around 1/2 hour it felt more positive – then we could see a glimmer of blue ski….well I will let you look at the pictures to finish the story itself.

Yes we had risen above the clouds! – and it was in Yorkshire (not the Italian Alpes!)  

Photo’s of the walk

Video of the Top of Little Ingleborough!

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