whitestone wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 6:58 pm Felt pretty cold here today, but then a week ago it was nearly 20C warmer!

Is anyone in town tomorrow night? Richard was talking about being at The Railway (next to Tesco). We might pop down for a chat and a beer. Or a beer and a chat.

Richard G wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:12 pm Unrelated, I'm really hoping to make it to Dent Head Viaduct / Cowgill (~115 miles) the first day.

Anywhere near there that might be good to stop (tent)?

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:29 am Another one bites the dust, literally in this case. I don't even have a good excuse really. I never thought it would come to this but I've got so much going on at home with various DIY projects around the building work in the kitchen that finally started this week (it would be this week wouldn't it), unusually stressful work situations (which I've been dealing with while the wall under my feet is knocked out and the dust covering my keyboard as I'm typing), and trying to keep my OCD partner sane while I and various other people knock bits of the house down around her and cover the rest of the house, and I mean all of it (hence literally biting the dust), in a layer of dust. I've barely had the time to ride recently, unless it involves a trip Screwfix. I got up at 5.30 last Sunday and knocked out an 80 mile road ride before going back to more DIY, which convinced me that the YD300 might be a go-er, for a while. But I don't have the energy, mental, or physical, to properly prepare for a bikepacking trip, and I can't justify 4 nights away from home at the moment - I was going to combine it with a trip to visit my sister, who's going back to work next week after having my niece, who's nearly 1 and I've met once, so I'm going to do that at the weekend instead. Priorities.

TL;DR Sorry for the brain dump, not doing the YD300

Looks like there's plenty of spare tickets that were before mine, but anyone would be welcome to take my place.

Thanks techno and Bob for putting the list of resupply points together, very useful, and still will be in the future. As recently as last weekend, I put them all, straight from techno's map, into a GPX of POIs to load into Viewranger (should work with other apps/devices too), so I'll leave this link here in case it's of use to anyone, fill yer boots:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/023ycr3rhfmcp ... s.gpx?dl=0

Good luck if you're still riding, sorry I'm not going to meet some of you.

whitestone wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 6:58 pm Felt pretty cold here today, but then a week ago it was nearly 20C warmer!

Is anyone in town tomorrow night? Richard was talking about being at The Railway (next to Tesco). We might pop down for a chat and a beer. Or a beer and a chat.

whitestone wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:56 am Plenty of spots at the top of Cam Head just before you get there, it's only a fifteen minute descent to get to Cowgill viaduct from there. There's also various spots on the way down the dale after the viaduct including one just at the start of the climb over Great Wold.

techno wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 4:48 pm Poor show from me too. Horrible cramps kicked in around 40km in, couldn't clear them despite plenty of salts, water and pood being taken on. Bumped.imto another fella at kettle well who's GPS had packed up. Want enjoying myself and had nowhere near enough salt tabs to last another day and a half (not that they were working anyway!). Had a painful spin back to Skipton and took the train home.
Meh.
I've never suffered from cramps this early in a ride before so I'm a bit puzzled why it was so bad. Maybe I was dehydrated before I set off, but I don't think so.

Sorry to hear you had a bad day too rich..

Richard G wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:17 pm Hopefully the other boners had a better time of it!