YOUGS Winter weekend - day two: Bridestones, Levisham, Newtondale; thank you, Peter Robinson, for another interesting trip, and Ann for organising

Missing from the view - the car decorated with "Happy 50th Birthday" balloons - Don't know what the locals thought of our 8 vehicle convoy!
View from our hotel - Scarborough Castle on Castle Hill (see last year's trip!) Hackness Hall - this is where William Smith was employed as a land agent
Dave and Peter for scale Lower Calcareous Grit - also found near the top of Scarborough Castle Hill, and Cayton Bay
Upper Jurassic Lower Calcareous Grit Bridestones - the colouration due to fire Is Peter trying to push this one over with his stick?
Following lunch at the Horshoe, on the way to Levisham Bottoms A good photo opportunity for Newtondale
Another steep hill - several 1 in 5 valleys had to be traversed Skelton Tower - built by Rev Skelton, Vicar of Levisham to write his sermons in peace and quiet?
Can you see any trains coming? Walking along the cliff edge - peaty ground on the underlying Osgodby Formation
Newtondale, and North York Moors Railway - facing north Steep drop to the valley - carved by meltwater from the Devensian glaciers
If only all the path had been this easy to walk on! Exposure about 1.5 metres high
The start of the steep walk down.  Path still reasonable! Exposure of the Langdale beds of the Osgodby Formation, halfway down
Not quite the Railway Children - Roy and Karl
Waving to the train - even if it was only a diesel Almost finished!  Time for a brief rest at Raygate Slack - and wondering what it will look like in the summer, filled with wildflowers and butterflies.

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