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On Saturday, Lorraine and I drove up to Ribblehead with the plan of walking a bit of the Dales Way, the Ribble Way and the Pennine Way. The idea was to walk Blea Moor after walking from Ribblehead to Grove Head. However the plan changed. We road walked from Ribblehead to Far Gearstones then followed the Dales Way up the Roman road along Cam Fell. It was nice and sunny with great views of the Three Peaks (didn't spot Dave crowd dodging though). There was a fair bit of rain about but it seemed to be on the higher tops, so we only got a little wet. The Pennine Way was joined and we followed it for a while before wandering over virtually pathless country up to Dodd Fell Hill. It is a nice place, lots of bog cotton and other (unidentifiable to me) plant life. We dropped back down to the Pennine Way and retraced our steps up to the limestone pavement near Grove Head. It is a cool place, the limestone is full of fossils, looks like corals or reeds (or grouse poo!). The rain caught up with us as we descended the Ribble Way down to the Ribblehead road. It was quite heavy and the wind didn't really help. Again, we were on the edge of it. To our left Ingleborough was getting wet, while to our right, Wensleydale was getting baked! (Sounds cheesy!) Aches and pains caught up with us both and our Blea Moor walk was postponed. Instead we had a three and a half mile road walk back to the car. We were both virtually crawling at this point, my foot decided it would be all arthritic on me, it wasn't the most fun! Despite the pains, it was a glorious walk, 14 miles of varying terrain, lots of fine scenery and plenty of interesting features, lime kilns, ruined cottages, odd sheep folds and fossilised 'things'. The last part of the day was a cracking fish and chips in Settle, a bit expensive, but bloody lovely. A full album is available on Webshots at http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563810906JyvRsa |
