Colourful Aire Valley walk.

Lots of contrasting colours on our Aire Valley walk today which made for an enjoyable early afternoon.

We ( Corinthian Column and I ) started this booklet almost exactly two years ago. We did 3 of the walks before starting to run out of day light and for some reason didn't do any more till the following autumn - 2012.

We did a couple then ending with one that was so wet and had every horror imaginable; a path that had become a stream; bulls; Rottweilers; awkward farmers; gates that wouldn't open, that we gave up again until today.

We started well on the canal side from Bradley to Farnhill where these lovely rose hips were. Then an inevitable climb on to Farnhill Moor. Lovely contrasts from the turning bracken to the lush greens in the valley bottom. You can see across the valley to Cononley village in the top two insets.

The 'pinnacle' of our walk was the bizarre Farnhill Pinnacle. Never seen this from the road before. It commemorates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 and the subsequent Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935. It certainly couldn't be described as scenic but the views all round from here were worth the pull.

It was literally downhill from here. At one point it looked like we were going over a precipice!

As usual this walk had its share of odd instructions. One being to go 'inland' - never even saw the sea!