DervMan’s Favourite Places:

North Yorkshire

I

just love North Yorkshire! There are some great driving roads, some wonderful scenery, and some fantastic pubs – and I’ve only just started exploring!

It’s not about speed, nay for the most part it’s impossible to get above around 30 mph, because visibility around corners is terrible. But you have tight corners, gradients, sheep, fords and gates to deal with.

This picture just had to be taken! One of the perils of the Moors is flooding – when this picture was taken, the ford was little more than a dribble. However, I’ve seen fords impassable to anything other than an offroader. Or a rowing boat.

If you go through a ford containing water, always dry your brakes afterwards.

It’s rare that you’re able to get up to a speed that justifies top gear. Here is one opportunity – you’re going down hill, and visibility is excellent. There are no sheep around, either.

Just don’t let your guard down!

If it looks like a dark picture, that’s because it was a dull day and you’re approaching the bottom of the clouds.

There’s something utterly cool about piloting your Ka through clouds...

A nicely framed shot, taken on the same day as the above picture, and showing the cloud in the valley.

Around thirty seconds after taking this picture, it began to rain. Heavily.

A shot taken near a small school, buried deep in the Moors, north of Pickering. It’s best to go there out of term time, else the Headmistress chases you away!

When looking at this picture, you ought to be saying to yourself, “gentle dip, third, hard up the gradient.”

Writing of gradients, this is an in-Ka shot of Sutton Bank.

This picture was taken near Osmotherley, deep in the Yorkshire Moors.

Forget the fact that you can see a haze in the distance: that was one hot day back in the summer of 2002!

This picture was taken somewhere in the North Yorkshire Moors.

I’m not being deliberately secretive, but at the time I didn’t know where I was!

When winter sets in, the Yorkshire Moors suffer from snow. Lots of snow. This makes the countryside both beautiful and dangerous at the same time. *ahem*

This shot was taken around fifteen miles south east of Pickering.

This shot shows how the peaks of the Moors can be lost in the weather. Shortly after this photograph was taken, it started to sleet – that’s the sleet you can see in the distance!

Another nice shot of the western side of the Yorkshire Moors.

This magnificent shot was taken at the top of the White Horse – this picture of Kermit was taken in the car park.

This shot was taken approximately one mile from Sutton Bank, close to the White Horse.