Wharfedale & Airedale Observer
22nd April 2010
Celebrity rambler Janet Street-Porter will help launch this
year's 10th Otley Walking Festival.
Ms Street-Porter, a high-profile media personality, will also
be launching The Six Dales Trail a new long-distance walk from
Otley to Middleham from outside the Civic Centre at 9am on
Saturday, June 26.
The 39-mile trail has been produced by Otley's Walkers are
Welcome group, which has also made an illustrated guidebook
supported by Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
for it.
The trail takes its name from the dales that are traversed as
walkers make their way northwards from Otley across the AONB to
Middleham, taking in Wharfedale, Washburndale, Nidderdale,
Colsterdale, Coverdale and Wensleydale.
A keen walker and Nidderdale resident, Ms Street-Porter was
president of the Ramblers' Association for two years in the
1990s.