Not the cleverest choice of walk on a post lockdown August Tuesday with a good forecast, so no parking in the car park at Glenridding, nor above the Travellers Rest, where there appear to be twenty new residents with invisible houses. So by chance, as we had to park up the main road on a […]
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Addition to High Cup Nick walk.
That is “High Cup Nick, shortened version of walk 23 “, from 12th Sept 2018. The addition is to see the interesting floral limestone gully, Maizebeck scar, adding just over a mile. From the Nick, follow the obvious path of the Pennine Way, and descend to cross Maize Beck beyond Watch Hill and turn upstream […]
Nenthead Nuttalls 2: Dead Stones and Flinty Fell.
Continuing the dialling down from big Nuttall walks like 5 of them on the Burnhope Reservoir round, this takes the northern most of that round, Dead Stones, and adds Flinty Fell, to make an easy 7.9 mile round with some interest. That comes right at the start as, starting from the car park in Nenthead, […]
Nenthead Nuttalls 1: The Dodd and Killhope Law.
If you, like us, don’t fancy 13.5 miles of moor bog trotting to bag three “Nuttalls”, as their book chapters 10.1 and 10.2 do, these two walks allow two each and shorten the moor walking. For the first we started at Killhope Cross, at 623m actually higher than The Dodd, and followed the fence over […]
Harrisend Fell to Grizedale Head, Bowland.
Another new Bowland walk for us, although a 15 minute drive away in this plague year. Really a longer lead in to Haythornthwaite Fell walk, although as an extension to that would make it a very long round. This is 6+ miles and 1100 ft of ascent. From Grizedale Bridge car park, Nether Wyresdale, take […]
Addition to the “Lune Valley Walk”
Doing this walk on the north bank first, on the return leg the Wenning can easily be forded with “crocs” or sandals where it joins the Lune, cutting off the diversion on each side of it to Hornby and back. That is, at present in our drought! From here the old permissive path carries on […]