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Notes on the Pennine Way, second week.

By Hugh Stewart October 16, 2014 Leave a Comment

Horton in Ribblesdale to Dufton. The accommodation hotspot is Keld, as it is shared with the very popular Coast to Coast. The websites and local B&Bs tend to forget the Park House Bunkhouse near Keld, which is excellent and provides everything you want, and if full there are three yurts which look good also! Baldersdale has only one B&B, and this tends to be blanket booked by the booking companies, so if you’re booking it yourself, walk to Bowes, where there is no life at all but a small castle, and get a £10 taxi into Barnard Castle, where I recommend the Three Horseshoes Inn, and a look around the interesting Castle. And, (2020), get your eyes tested! A bus at 9.40 next day with friendly driver returns you to almost wherever you want! We lost the path over Sleightholme Moor bog more than once in deep mist; take the track alternative if you cant see, (after a coffee in the friendly pub). The Forresters in Middleton in T gives the best cuisine of this week. Pity Garrigill is so PW unfriendly, but with an early start the 20 miles to Alston is actually not that bad, although a tea-shop would have gone down well there. Blueberry tea rooms in Alston good for an evening meal, maybe weekends only though. Bye.

Wennington. Bus and two trains to Horton in R, bus and train home from Alston!
Approaching Hawes.
On the side of Kisdon Hill to Keld.
The yurts at Park House, Keld.
The Tees Bridge from the Castle at Barnard Castle.
Low Force near Bowlees.
Cauldron Snout.
Cross Fell summit cairn; first time the mist cleared on this long day.

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Hillwalks from the Settle to Carlisle Railway Stations

24 walks into the hills surrounding the historic and iconic Settle to Carlisle railway, based on the stations between Settle and Appleby. The area has some of the finest walking of the north Pennines: the Craven district around Settle; the Three Peaks area; Dentdale, and Mallerstang and the upper Eden valley.

£12.95 (P&P may apply)

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Mountain Biking Adventures: Multi-day Routes in Northern Britain

Over the last two decades, mountain biking has developed enormously as a “sport”. We greatly admire the technical and athletic capabilities of modern day mountain bikers and recognise that many excellent guides have been written and custom-built trails set up. In this guide we try to reopen a sense of adventure and wilderness to mountain biking, providing multi-day routes with a remoteness, continuity and “arc” missing from many modern guides with their focus on day and half day outings.

UK £13.95 ( inc. P&P)

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Settle to Carlisle – Hill Walk with Return by Classic Train Route

With over 22,000 ft of ascent in 105 miles set out over 8 days, this walk sets out from Settle, taking in the classic summits of the North Yorkshire Dales, Howgills, Eastern and Northern Lakeland Fells, to arrive at Carlisle. The return journey to Settle by one of the classic train journeys. Illustrated with photographs and route maps.

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Torver circular

A six and a bit mile walk for a day too windy for the summits, or, in my case, a bad knee. It combines a pleasant ascent through pastures, quarries and moor, with the Old Man and Dow Crag ahead, with a return along the easy Coniston Water lakeside path. A car park just north of the church, with

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Watendlath and Borrowdale circular

A suitable pre-Theatre by the Lake evening production, when the cloud level is low and you don't fancy walking with no views in the damp. It comes to just under 9 miles with 2100ft of ascent. From the Lodore Wood car park up the Watendlath road, take the road south till an obvious track leads off

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Addition to the book of Trespass: Warcop.

This is an 8 mile walk over Little Fell and down and along the side of Scordale. A wild, lonely, and in places rough walk, with 2100ft of climbing. The trespass refers to the fact that most of the walk is in the MOD's land, with access granted by them on 12 weekends per year and other odd days. The

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