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It had been a long time since I had cycled in the North Yorkshire Moors, the Pennines forming a barrier that I all too few times had crossed. Good Friday 1993 was one such occasion when, garbed in a cape, I rode through drizzle and wind, hampered by the traffic and buffeted by the wind and spray from the heavy wagons on the A59, I nevertheless accomplished my aim - the crossing of the Pennines to Helmsley and the Easter Meet. Setting off from Heskin in Lancashire, in a cape at six o'clock in the morning, I arrived at Helmsley Y.H. at half-past-six in the evening, still in the cape!