Day 6 Earby to Kettlewell

Alan left first heading down back through the village, Bert and Trevor needed to get back to Bradford. The most direct route is straight up the hill from here, excellent! After warming up with another 1200ft climb we said our goodbyes and Calum and I headed north again to Skipton for shopping and two visits to the pie shop, how could I miss it? Having loaded up the bags with fresh food we headed back up on to the hills again through Eastby, only 1171ft this time but well worth it. On the way up there is a sign post which says 14%, now I've climbed enough hills to know that it's wrong, definitely worth a detour if you're in the area. We had planned to stay at Linton but the YHA in it's wisdom has closed nearly all the rural hostel in Yorkshire so we headed on to Kettlewell. The village was still quiet when we visited but the film 'Calendar Girls' had not been released at the time. I expect the place is unbearable by now. The hostel has recently been improved, this seems to consist of making the kitchen one quarter of it's former size!