{"id":869,"date":"2016-06-27T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=869"},"modified":"2016-06-29T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T13:42:30","slug":"up-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Up In The Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

We planned to have a good walk today originally thinking we might moor somewhere just after the last of the three locks we still had to negotiate on our way down through Gargrave.\u00a0 This proved to be impossible and we walked along the towpath testing the bottom with Oliver\u2019s pole at frequent intervals. \u00a0Who did we meet along the way?<\/p>\n

\"Who's<\/a>
Who’s This Then?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A large ledge and shallow sloping sides to the canal forced us to continue to just past bridge 174, the swing bridge near Thorlby.\u00a0 Just before swing bridge 173 we had come across a boat firmly wedged across the canal.\u00a0 A \u201ccrash stop\u201d put us in danger of ending up \u201cin the same boat\u201d but we escaped and sorted out \u201cDavro\u201d before continuing on our way.<\/p>\n

\"They<\/a>
They Didn’t Bank On This<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From here the three youngest members of the crew walked to the trig point at the top of Sharp Haw (357 metres).<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>
On Top Of The World<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A Panorama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Part of the outward journey was along the Dales High Way and was easy to find.\u00a0 The return, which looked quite straightforward, proved to be quite an adventure as paths marked on the map failed to materialise on the ground.\u00a0 Black skies threatened behind us at times but the rain kept away.<\/p>\n

\"Light<\/a>
Light And Dark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why would a stile have a gate?<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A Puzzle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oliver gets a new look.<\/p>\n

\"Oliver's<\/a>
Oliver’s Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We planned to have a good walk today originally thinking we might moor somewhere just after the last of the three locks we still had to negotiate on our way down through Gargrave.\u00a0 This proved to be impossible and we walked along the towpath testing the bottom with Oliver\u2019s pole at frequent intervals. \u00a0Who did … Continue reading Up In The Clouds<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leeds-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-e1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}