23 miles from Marsden, via Black Hill, organised by LDWA Vermuyden Group
The Bog Dodgers Way is well named, or it would be, if it werent for Global Warming and the fact that Yorkshire is officially "dry" still. The reservoirs were empty, the path up to Black Hill was bone dry, and the top of Black Hill was a surreal landscape of dried out and dusty peat bog, still slightly springy underfoot but not a place to practice bog-hopping.
It was also very hot. It was also the first time I had ever done one of these events in a vest and shorts, so I could be seen at the start smearing my pasty white body all over with factor 15 sun cream. A quick mental calculation told me that I ought to be able to get back before I burnt. On the last few miles down the packhorse track back to Marsden I could feel my skin starting to crisp. Looking in a mirror later I could identify an area, bordered in finger shapes, where I had not quite reached, but apart from that I remained untanned. It's impressive stuff, sun cream!