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BB2231 : In Anti-Cyclonic Gloom 10th November 2022 I looked at my phone. According to the Met Office, it wasn’t raining. It was. According to the BBC, it would rain for the next hour then stop. According to Accuweather it would rain for the next seven minutes then stop. Seven minutes later we looked outside. It was raining. Two more minutes later we looked outside. It had stopped raining. Accuweather had won. However, all agreed that we were in for a period of anti-cyclonic gloom. Put another way in plain English: dark days. We had met at the Sizergh Castle café. It had been raining hard so we treated ourselves to tea and cake. A civilised way to start the day. We had a very simple plan. Walk up onto Helsington Barrows as far as we wanted, return a different way and be back before Tony’s 4 hour parking ticket ran out. That’s what we did. On the way up, Tony examined a barn that he would have liked to convert. On the way back, at the other side of that barn, he spotted a lime kiln that we had never previously noticed. It looked in reasonably good order but needs the ivy removing before it wrecks the kiln. For once we didn’t go into the church, nor use its graveyard seat for our lunch. It was too soon even for Tony as he had already been partially refuelled. Nor did we linger looking at the view. Neither the engraving nor its subjects could be clearly seen. We moved on towards Scout Scar but descended to Barrowfield Farm rather than continue to the Mushroom. There was some talk of visiting the bird hide down in the valley, which would be a sheltered place to have our butties, but that would be too late for Tony’s stomach and his parking ticket. Instead we took advantage of a bench at Brigsteer before heading back over to Sizergh Castle. The café was just about to close. We were there just in time for more tea and crumpet. Just the thing to ward off the after-effects of anti-cyclonic gloom. Don, Thursday 10th November 2022 Post script: Something we have noticed is how much brighter are photos taken on our phones compared with those taken on our cameras. Here is the Android version of the view from Helsington Barrows. Comitibus : Mike, Tony, Don

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Map: OS 1:50k

STATISTICS	BB2231 : In Anti-cyclonic Gloom
Date:	Thursday 19th November 2022
Features:	Helsington Barrows
Distance in miles:	6.0
Height climbed in feet:	1,104
GPX track:	BB2231 GPX
Comitibus:	Don, Mike B, Tony

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