Meet at the Stainforth Youth Hostel from 5pm to 7.30pm.
WILL ALL PLEASE BOOK IN AT RECEPTION UPON ARRIVAL!
When entering the Hostel book in at Reception. You are ALL booked in under the name of BRADLEY ("LEADER"). Your rooms have already been allocated, as the staff will tell you. The "Girlies" are booked into two four-bed ON-SUIT bedrooms, (bedrooms 6 & 8). The "Lads" are booked into the 6-bed ON-SUIT bedroom, (bedroom 7).
Gareth and Matthew are booked into a shared room as they are only staying the one night.
You will be asked if you would like to book a Breakfast or any evening meal, I suggest you book and pay (about £3.50) for a breakfast for the SUNDAY only. If anyone would like a breakfast on the Saturday, I suggest you cater for yourselves, as we will have to leave the Hostel quite quickly. It is advisable to bring your own cereals or bread etc for toast and be out of bed and ready for the off NO LATER than 6.30. I suggest that sandwiches are prepared the night before to allow more time in the morning.
The Friday evening meal has been booked at the Craven Heifer pub in the village of Stainforth for 8PM. The pub is approximately 500 meters down the road towards Horton in Ribblesdale and is quite easily found. The Saturday evening meal will be consumed in the Youth Hostel.
All the Meal has been bought and paid for by our own Leslie Wakeford. We will of course have to Reimburse her approximately £4 each.
The evening meal will consist of Lasagne and Chips/Salad with Garlic bread to start, Prepared by our own "Angels" (May Hindle and Jean Little-with a little hindrance from Brian Little), for 8pm.
Leave the Hostel at 6.30AM and proceed to Horton in Ribblesdale. Meet at the Car park at 6.45AM remembering to bring some change for the parking fee!
ALL who are attempting to start the walk MUST make sure they have completed the booking out form that I will have with me. This is in case of any emergency and is for the purpose of the Mountain Rescue association and the Three Peaks of Yorkshire club that you will become a member of upon completion of the walk.
It is imperative that whenever you either complete or pull out of the walk that you go to the Café and tell them your name so you can be ticked off this list. If you do not clock back into the Café straight away and go off to the pub instead (Brian), You may find that the Mountain Rescue has gone out looking for you and you could end up with an expensive bill to pay!
For those unable or only wishing to complete part of the walk, transport will be provided at 2 main pick up points, these being Ribblehead Viaduct and The Old Hill Inn. The first is after Pen-Y-Ghent and the second is after descending Whernside. Charlie Denham and our resident "nurse" Nicky Ison will be in Mobile contact with me throughout the walk so if anybody feels as though they need some assistance, they can report to me and a decision will be made as to where to pick up etc. If anybody is picked up they'll be taken back to the Car Park in Horton In Ribblesdale where they can collect their cars, go to the pub or help prepare the evening meal with our "Angela".
When everybody is accounted for on completion of the walk, a massage service is available at £50 per session with the NOW experienced Aroma therapist Junette Powell but only AFTER your "LEADER" has tested the service FIRST!
While Dinner is being prepared it is planned to have a Rounders Match between the Hubberton "Flyers" and the Southern "SOFTIES" This is only anticipated to last an hour!
Entertainment will be provided "FREE of CHARGE" by the UNFORGETABLE "Bradley Experience" with his "sexy Quavers"(You can fight over this one)! He has just returned from a concert tour of the Royal Abort Hall where he went down in "Spectacular Style" (He was shot at)! Also backing up this SPECTACULAR Extravaganza will be the Not so Spectacular "Dibleys" A Mother and Son duet with Lesley and Stuart Ennis with backing Vocals supplied by Brian and the soon to be Kate Ennis.
If anyone has a Musical instrument and is willing to join in the "FUN with a capital F", please feel free to join us.
Any non-Residents will have to vacate the Youth Hostel by 11pm unless permission is obtained from the Warden first.
Breakfast in Youth Hostel at 8.45 approx.
A short walk of 17 miles is planned (only joking, about 6 miles really-HONEST) as a warm down. We will probably go back to the Hostel for a cuppa and a GINGER SCONE before heading off home and starting the hardest part of our Fundraising - the collecting of the sponsorship. Could everybody try to have this in by Mid May so we can present our cheques to charity through the Evening Courier before the end of May.
This event is a "Major" part of our walking season and promises to be an excellent weekend. The committee of the Hubberton Hikers would like to extend a cordial welcome to ALL our friends and visitors who are joining us for the first time this weekend. If you are interested in joining us on any future hikes, please remember to visit this website for walk details. (www.hubbertonhikers.co.uk)
A65 Skipton bypass until you come to the sign instructing you to turn right into Settle. Go through the centre of Settle and start to come out the other side when just before a hump back bridge on THE RIGHT, you will see a sign for the B6479 Horton in Ribblesdale and Stainforth. Turn right here and proceed for approx 2.5 miles (going through the village of Langcliffe). You will go past a paper mill on your left when you know you will be quite near, and in front on your left you should now see a group of trees. The Youth Hostel is in this group of trees on your left so be careful not to pass