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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Jane Dunford

‘I love the sense of freedom’: an accessible adventure in North Yorkshire

The author’s sister, Lisa, on her battery-assisted handcycle in Dalby Forest.
The author’s sister, Lisa, on her battery-assisted handcycle in Dalby Forest. Photograph: Jane Dunford

It’s a bright autumn morning in Dalby Forest and the light is casting dappled patterns on the leaf-covered ground as my sister Lisa whizzes past on her bike. I catch her up and we stop to take in the view and debate which way to head next.

Nothing particularly unusual in this, perhaps, except Lisa has been a wheelchair user for almost 10 years after a spinal cord injury left her paralysed from the waist down, and this is the first time we’ve properly been out and about in nature since.

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