Brimham Rocks

This past Sunday we went to Brimham Rocks, an area about an hour away right outside of Harrogate. It's basically a natural playground. Packed with families on the weekend, everybody who can walk can scale a rock.


(You'll have to take my word for it since this is small, but there are people on top of most of the rocks in the background)



They are very unusual rock formations for the area. With a little internet research I discovered that they were formed from sand and grit washed here from granite mountains in northern Scotland and Norway. The debris was deposited in angles, ripples, and dunes depending on the river flow. Then there was erosion, sand-blasting at the bases, and some freeze and thaw action. 320 million years later, we end up with some pretty cool stuff to climb on and shapes worthy of druid and devil-worship. But be careful... it's still sandy.





Watch out for the native oompa-loompas--they're very active this time of year!

...just kidding, it's only a Pat-Jamie-backpack combo shadow!