<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/view-from-bedroomjan17.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4154 alignright" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/view-from-bedroomjan17-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>A few days away with my college friends and what marvelous views from my bedroom window. A walk along part of the Pennine way starting at Wessenden Head Reservoir then Butterley Reservoir, through Marsden and along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal finishing at Slaithwaite. Lunch at lovely cafe before catching a couple of buses (and there hangs a tale) back to Holmfirth. I think the walk is close to 6 miles but others thought it was less.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/u3a-walk-holmfirthjan17.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4153 size-thumbnail" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/u3a-walk-holmfirthjan17-150x200.jpg" width="150" height="200" /></a>Day two and I joined Holmfirth U3A for a walk that stretched the legs up and down the valleys that make up this part of Yorkshire.

They are a lovely group who are used to walking up to ten miles and so I was pleased that we took with us some egg rolls for a break at lunchtime

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The climb up the steps to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill,_Huddersfield" target="_blank">Castle Hill</a> was one of the many times on the walk when I was just thinking one foot in front of the other. As you can see from this photo the weather was perfect - crisp and clear.

And once you've climbed this high it would be churlish not to take a photo of the view which in this instance was the wonders of Huddersfield.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/huddersfieldjan17.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-4151 alignleft" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/huddersfieldjan17-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>After making the most of the day and walking for 5 hours less half an hour for lunch it seems we had covered 8 miles although it felt more like ten to me. I haven't walked this far since I did the Cotswold Way and I think I should do it more often because I slept like a top.