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The church was built in 1897. Architect, W.S.Hicks
©Hugh Mortimer
South of Dalton Village leading to Long Bank and Moor Lane
©Hugh Mortimer
With icicles like these, who indeed ? Also, saves the bother of taking them down on twelfth night...
©Andy Waddington
The Church of St James at Dalton.
©Peter McDermott
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©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.2km<br/>A popular venue for mountaineering slide lectures, the village hall in Dalton also has the advantage of more parking than anywhere else in Dalton, so formed a convenient meeting place for the Ski Section of Swaledale Outdoor Club. The section has been almost moribund over the last several years, but the return to real winter weather has brought a sudden increase in interest, so this was an introductory meet for mostly new nordic skiers. Not quite enough boots and skis to go round meant a lot of faff...
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.2km<br/>Well, it's the car park for Dalton and Gayles Village Hall, but an introductory nordic ski meet involved sorting more than a dozen people out with kit from the Swaledale Outdoor Club ski store, which involved a great deal of faff, so no cars could get in.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.3km<br/>The packed snow surface of Moor Lane proved to be an excellent loipe up out of Dalton towards the military ranges. Probably the biggest group I've ever skied with - fifteen adults and two children (I think) all from Swaledale Outdoor Club.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.4km<br/>The game here had become getting as far up the far side among the gorse as possible, by schussing from the top of the final slope on the footpath down to Dalton. Of those who made it to the bottom at all, the distance behind the standing figures was fairly similar, and mainly dependent on skier weight and commitment. Since this was an introductory trip with several people who had not used nordic skis before, there were a lot of wipeouts, as exemplified by the ski base and upward-pointing pole seen in the cloud of snow left of centre...
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.4km<br/>The final slope of the footpath on the north side of Dalton Gill returning to Dalton village provided a long half hour of entertainment for a Swaledale Outdoor Club nordic skiing group. Although the experts were able to make turns in the soft snow, the popular option was simply trying to schuss down and remain upright. There were a lot of failures. I think this one was one of the survivors - just. We eventually had to stop - it was getting dark.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.6km<br/>A small stream joins with Scar Beck as it runs through Dalton Gill.
©Graham Scarborough
Dist:0.7km<br/>On the Dalton to Newsham road
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.7km<br/>The road leading down into Dalton.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.8km<br/>It may look like a little girl being towed on a sledge, but Izzy is doing a very important job. By being dragged along this footpath, she is preparing the loipe(*) to ease the progress of a large group of nordic skiers following along behind in the soft snow on the way back down to Dalton. * Loipe - most web definitions merely say "A marked trail for Nordic skiers", but in most ski resorts the trail is not merely marked, but has a pair of grooves cut by a template towed behind a piste basher (which also packs down the snow). This means that fast nordic skiers with skis designed for tracks (rather than touring ones with sidecut and edges to cope with "wild" snow) can power along without bothering to do much steering. Of course, really fast nordic skiers use skating steps, which cut the loipe up, to the great annoyance of those who were relying on the "tram rails" to ski along. From the touring skiers' perspective, the great benefit of a loipe is that the snow is already compressed, and there is no great effort involved in "breaking trail".
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.8km<br/>Fields at Low Fields Farm.
©Peter McDermott

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