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Widdale Fell, read the instructions!

By Hugh Stewart April 27, 2015 Leave a Comment

Did this walk, 15 in the “Stations” book, yesterday without the book. Mistake! Had trouble finding Little Widdale Tarn as we crossed the fence at The Great Tarn instead of following it right. I do say in the introduction “Navigation…. needs close correlation between the text and map”, but thought better of it, what a twerp. It is quite boggy between the tarns and the limestone edge at present, but not over the boots stuff.
After the ladder stile at SD828897 the quad “track” remains hard to find, and is in fact quite boggy in places, but still probably better than traversing the rough pasture. The map below show detail between Great Knoutberry Fell, the tarns, and the wall to follow beyond.

Finally, if you think of parking at the Moorcock rather than at Garsdale Station, to shorten the long walk at the end of the day, it takes longer than 15 minutes at the start to get upto the station at a normal pace!

The causeway to the hide , Widdale Little Tarn.
From the Hide to the causeway in winter.
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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.

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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.

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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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