Category: Dales 30
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Ingleborough – The start of the 2026 mountain season.
The start of the 2026 mountain season, and we kicked things off strong with a firm favourite: Ingleborough. We’ve been up Ingleborough before, I’ll pop that route at the bottom of the page for anyone who wants to compare past suffering, but today’s route was definitely the best. This time we started from Clapham, parking…
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Buckden Pike take 2
I was going to just adjust the previous Buckden post, but this new walk up felt like it was worthy of its own post. Parking once again in Buckden carpark we headed towards the river Wharfe instead of taking the path uphill from the carpark. We followed the river for a couple of miles which…
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Buckden Pike
7th highest mountain in the Dales, coming in at 702m. Supposedly this mountain has the best views in all of the Dales. I wouldn’t know if this is true or not though. I will probably be walking up it again shortly, maybe the weather will be kinder this time? This walk starts in Buckden at…
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Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge
For pure pleasure and as it’s always been on my bucket list, we took on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge. We followed and mapped to the official route that allows you to start in 3 places and can be completed in a clockwise and anticlockwise direction. As we stayed in Ingelton the night before, we…
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Goodbye 2024 and welcome to 2025.
I was feeling reflective this morning thinking about all the amazing walks we did in 2024. We completed the Dales 30 and also succeeded in getting in some additional walks as well. Here’s the origin story of our walks and highlights of 2024. March 2024 We adopted Henry from the Dog’s Trust and wanted to…
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A walk on the Wild sid.. Boar Fell
I’ve been dreaming of getting back into the Dales the last few weekends, but the weather has been fairly rubbish with high winds so not really safe for us to do so. This is a write up of our last mountain walk which ticked off both Wild Boar Fell (708m) before moving onto Swarth Fell…