Malham Sunday 9th February 2003
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The day's walking started in the car park at Malham. We started out through the village and across this nice stone bridge. We learned through the day that it is better (and drier) to use bridges where they are available... |
| Check out those alloy wheels!... the very latest in farming equipment | 
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The first waterfall up Malham Scar. At this point everyone is still dry and nice and warm. | 
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In the next photographs, the Open Air Club would like to clearly state it doesn't endorse damage to national monuments... Gareth climbing a very ancient and historically important ruin. Notice the stone bouncing away off the building and the expression on Gareth's face |
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Chris bravely retrieving the priceless piece of English history | 
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Gareth cautiously taking a bow on the top of the ruin |
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| Ok, so we are meant to climb up here? Actually it was nowhere near as bad as it looked | Me posing for a cheesy photo and looking as bad as ever... | 
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| Emma not managing to avoid a snow ball at the top of Malham Scar. The small pockets of snow provided plenty of snow combat. | 
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Gareth getting ready to return snow-fire as Emma and Anna look innocently incapable of throwing snow balls. Really? | 
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The sun bursting through the clouds. Whilst it was cold, the day was very sunny. This was taken shortly after we stopped to have dinner in a sheltered spot. |
| The Tarn, from the top of Great Close Hill | 
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Chris looks on in despair as the lads try and work out which way up the map should go... |
| ... whilst the girls are already fine tuning their route for the quickest time back to the pub. | 
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On a mountain top far, far away: Snow Wars Episode II: Attack of the Hikers On the defensive: Chris W checking out the enemy snow ball positions whilst entrenched behind the wall. |
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On the offensive: Chris D makes a surprise sortie over the wall |
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The small pocket of deep snow proved to be a severe problem, for somepeople... | 
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.. and other's didn't learn from the mistakes."Walk round snow suggest would I" |
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The Limestone pavement in late afternoon | 
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Louise taking in the sun on the Limestone pavement. I was really pleased with this photo | 
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Looking down over Malham from the Limestone pavement. |
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Malham cove. The river used to flow over the top, the water fall occurring at the join between two types of rock - remember Geography? At some point in time the river took exception to the water fall and decided to avoid going over it. Instead it headed underground bubbling out at the base of the old falls. Hence Malham cove. |
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The dilemma was to get people and kit across the river. Here Gareth is working out how much water entered his back pack. Only one (jammy) OAC member noticed a bridge a few hundred yards further down whilst trying to find a better place to cross. |
| Nope this isn't a scene out of 999, nor, thankfully is Emma at all hurt. Gareth and Anna are trying to persuade her to get up out of the mud after she misjudged jumping the last bit of the river, landing in it (like nearly everyone else...), and then finally giving up and lying in the mud on the bank. Apparently good for the complexion. | 
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The proof of Emma being fine;- Emma is modelling this season's outdoor line with accessories including a fair amount of mud and cold river water. Not too far to the pub now though. |
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