Geo-Catching Through Yorkshire
Travel Experience | Ricky | August 3, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Yorkshire, home to wide-spanning wondrous landscapes is best explored by hiking, mountain biking or horseback ride. One can unravel miles of undulating hills abuzz with the resonance of gentle winds blowing and the sights of lapwings, heather swathed moorlands with vast sky panoramas, stalwart ancient villages, pastures bequeath with flowery abundance, luxuriant ranches, serene valleys and an added bonus of incredible shoreline of rock-strewn crags and sandy beaches.
The amazing scenery is shielded by two national parks namely the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors along with many parts of innate 
beauty in all its splendorous forms. The superlative way to explore the landscape can be by walking, cycling through four of Britain’s premium National Trails like the Cleveland Way that commences from Ryedale, meandering around North York Moors winding into the sea; the Yorkshire Wolds Way ambles in the course of serene meadows and placid hills. The Pennine Way commences from Peak District while gaiting through the Yorkshire Dales en route for Scotland and the Pennine Bridleway is perfect for strollers and horseback riders or bikers that initiates from Derbyshire leading to the South Pennines.
The Pennine Way, the oldest National Trail is also great to engage in geocaching, the latest adaptation of the traditional treasure hunt where outdoor thrill seekers furnished with Global Positioning Systems or GPS and OS maps, get to explore the adventures of the countryside while taking on the challenge of unravelling the trove which are concealed boxes known as geocaches. These caches hold all kinds of capricious things like bits and parts of information, coins that have travelled through the world or even the basic log book and pencil. The plan is one could make a pick from among the collection and swap it with a similar priced item. But for many, who indulge in the sport, the fun part is the journey and not the destination, with a pretext to get to see a wide array of places that one could not have normally been able to see.
The Pennine Way Geocache Trail is devised for beginners and experts numbering to ten with divergent levels of complexity of terrain located between Malham and Hawes. The initial eight caches have to be found to be able to get a hold of any of the last two caches. On breaking the group code, the absolute prize is in the offing. The GPS devices can be rented from the information centres of Yorkshire Dales National Park located at Hawas and Malham, the Grassington and Hawes National Park Centres. This widely popular hobby is ideally explored during the mid months of February and October when there are fewer populace of people not involved in the game.
The premier long distance route at Cleveland Way in UK has the unique earthcaching adventure sport wherein instead of storage boxes, the treasured win is the information people gain by gathering geological and trade legacy data needed to get hold of the eight caches.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has devised a number of 
theme based caches in Upper Wharfedale, Dentdale and Reeth whose information is available on the internet in addition to a dedicated computer installed in the Malham National Park Centre.
There are more than 800,000 caches cleverly concealed in hundreds of countries across all continents waiting to be unravelled.
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And if you feel a bit overwhelmed by your DSLR camera and need more help, come on a Yorkshire Photography Landscape Workshop.
The aim of Fotodayz Photography Holidays is to show you how easy it is to learn the major techniques which you can carry forward in your photography with confidence.
Information is broken down during the day, repeated often and by the end of the day you can be quite surprised by how much you have expanded your technical skills as well feeling at ease with your camera.
No fuss, no techie speak, just simple clear explanations as many times as you need.
100% in the field, why waste that lovely countryside. It’s also the total experience of being in and looking at the landscape in beautiful areas of Britain. At the end of the day you will have the skills to produce professional looking photographs to put on your wall but more importantly you will have had space to stand and stare.
The majority of the workshops concentrate on Yorkshire – Swaledale, Malham, Flamborough and the Wolds with a few dips outside the border to Anglesey, and Kinlochewe in Glencoe.
Groups consist of only 5 people so everyone gets lots of personal attention.