Tag: #Dales
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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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Uterus Walk (aka The Coldstones Cut)
So I have about 25 walks to write up, but I just haven’t been bothered to blog lately. However, today’s walk was something special. I checked out the weather forecast and the MET office said, “hell yeah, go for your walk. It’ll be dry with moderate visibility.” Great times ahead then I thought. We had…
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Welcome Way – Ben Rhydding to Lady Lane
It’s been a while since I’ve done a decent walk. The last few weeks have been rather boozy with all the birthday celebrations. We dusted off our walking boots and decided to do the next section of the Welcome Way. It was like a tour of the English countryside to look at posh people’s homes. …
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Dales Way – Day 4
Zara and I both woke up to the noisiest Cuckoo bird that wanted to announce to the whole valley he was there. We decided to have a slow morning as we ate breakfast and packed away our tent. Today was our last day of walking and we had a short walk of 8 miles to…
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Dales Way & Day 3
We woke up at the Kettlewell youth hostel feeling rested after a great night’s sleep. They fed us an amazing English breakfast and then we packed up and set off on our days walk which was 11 miles to Nethergill Farm just outside Oughtershaw. Not long into our walk we met a farmer who told…
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Dales Way – Day 2
We woke up to rain, oh so very much rain. It started about 2 in the morning and was very heavy. I think if it had just been the rain it would have been ok, but there was wind as well. I’d not clipped the storm tensioners on the tent and the fly sheet was…
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Dales Way – Day 1
Zara and I decided a little while ago that we would walk the Dales Way. This was when the weather was beautiful and walking through the dales had me imagining I was Julia Andrews running through the hills. Queue reality and we were up early to catch the train to Ilkley which is the official…
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A trip around a couple of very low reservoirs
Our weekend walk last weekend was a trip around Swinsty and Fewston. It’s not rained for about 2 months and the reservoirs are very low. We had a great conversation on our walk about how we might have to fight our neighbours for a pint of water if it doesn’t rain soon. Louise, Rachel and…
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Welcome Way – Otley to Ben Rhydding
Rachel and Zalks joined us this week. We hadn’t seen them for a week because poor Zalks had fallen over and really hurt herself. We were a little worried about how she would cope, but she was a trooper not complaining once on the whole walk. It was a warm day and we started today’s…
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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…