Day 40 Malham - Rest day
Kilometers: 10
Rainy and windy day! In the morning it was just cloudy. I had decided to take a walk to Gordale Scar and Janet's Foss. It was supposed to start raining around lunch time, but I was so tired this morning that I got a bit of a late start.
Still the same river as yesterday!
Entering the land of Janet, queen of the fairies.
I can understand why people thought fairies lived here, it looked truly magical!
Entering Gordale Scar. It was created when a rock system collapsed a very long time ago.
See the man who tries to continue? I don't know how he did, I had just decided to visit Malham Cove on the way back, so I left before it started to rain too much. It wasn't too far and I'd read that it was so beautiful.
Malham Cove from above. See that rock ledge across the top? It looks so nice and flat, I couldn't understand why people were walking so slowly. When I got there it wasn't flat at all, it was a huge field of differently sized rocks, both large and small, and it was a bit difficult to cross. I'm so glad I had my poles! And that wasn't the end of it. Walking up had been easy but going down was hard. There was a very long staircase where the steps were of different height and width/depth. For a couple of days now I've had some slight knee pain off and on, probably from all the walking. Going down the stairs was difficult! I was very careful, stepping down mostly with my right leg first. That's the knee I hurt two years ago when I fell and damaged the meniscus. But the left knee is a bit painful as well. Let's see how it feels tomorrow!
And Malham Cove from below
I ended up walking 10 kilometers and lots of up and down on my planned rest day, so my legs are still just as tired as yesterday 😂
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