As with 2009 one of the first walks to make it onto the blog is the Embsay Crag circular. I set of at 5.30am from Skipton and got up to the reservoir just in time for the rising sun.
I'd hoped to take an exploratory route over the moor but with it being grouse shooting season I was restricted to the public footpath. In the end I took the familar path up to the crag and then dropped down into Embsay over the other side. As you can see the heather was on good form and I can report there were a good number of grouse.
I was on something of a (self-imposed) time limit to get back home but still having a bit of time I took another footpath onto the moor from Eastby. I didn't have time to venture on this footpath over towards the Barden reservoirs and soon had to retrace my steps back to Eastby and from there back home.
I did manage 10 miles though and added to this later in the day by trying to track down some of the 25 sheep which currently litter Skipton's urban landscape as part of the Flock to Skipton exhibition.
