A very good day out, Rob. I can assure you that, were it not for you wanting to do it again, I'd also have found an excuse not to do that particular rather hard combination of hills today as getting to the foot of Fleak Moss tends to feel like a big effort (what with it being about 70km and about 1,400m just to get to it).
To add to Rob's account I'd point out that he was comfortably a few hundred metres ahead of me all the way up to the top of 'the wall', which is about 2.5km from the top, and I briefly caught him on the 'flat' bit beyond that then dropped back again once the last series of false summits started. Rob on the bigger e-bike is an impressive hill climbing combination!
It was one of those days where the wind started off NE - a headwind to Aysgarth - swung round to N or NW - a headwind over Grinton Moor - and then finished its volte face with a W or SW from the top of Fleak Moss onwards, so another headwind all the way back to Ingleton. It was, however, negligible atop Fleak Moss, giving the midges/bugs/whatever they were a great opportunity to encourage us to descend sooner than we might otherwise have done. Hmph. Still, it was pretty light, but the direction change was 'amusing' I thought. I'm not complaining though - very nice weather indeed bar that minor quibble.
