Tag: #Dales
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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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Six Dales Trail Final Day
And what a perfect weather day it was as well. We started the day leaving Leighton reservoir behind us following a path through some farm land, dropping down to a plantation and then to a stream with a little bridge over it. We then climbed steeply back up hill, grumbling about the steepness whilst being…
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Six Dales Trail- part 3
We picked up the trail where we had left it in Pateley Bridge today to make a start on part 3 of the Six Dales trail. After a stop at the butchers for plenty of baked goods to power us through our walk we followed the river Nidd up to Gouthwaite reservoir. Walking was so…
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Janet Foss, Gordale Scar and Malham Cove
So I cheated on Rachel yesterday. I went into the Dales without her. Zara (my youngest daughter) had been watching Tictok and had found a video of a walk that she wanted to do. Upon viewing it I realised we had already done a section of the walk previously (10 years and 1 day to…
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Kilnsey to Malham Tarn
The weather has been extraordinarily good recently, but it’s forecast to change soon. So what maybe the last time we see the sun for 2025 we decided to do a decent walk in the Dales. We started in Kilnsey, though if I did the walk again I would choose a slightly different starting point. We…
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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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Six Dales trail part 2.
We walked the second part of the six Dales trail today from Blubberhouses to Pateley Bridge. Starting off in Blubberhouses we followed the river Washburn up to Thruscross Reservoir. We skirted the eastern bank of the reservoir before walking up the valley towards the water tower. From the water tower we headed downhill and then…
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Six Dales Trail. Part 1
The six Dales trail is a 38 mile walk from Otley to Middleham. Devised by a small team from Otley ‘Walkers are Welcome’ and brilliantly described in the book of the same name by John Sparshatt. I think the walk is designed to be walked over 2 days. But I’ve split it into 4 sections…
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Lindley Wood reservoir on a beautiful spring day
This was a new walk for me as I’ve driven past Lindley Wood reservoir many times but never actually walked around it. Lindley Wood reservoir is the first reservoir you come to in the Washburn Valley when you leave Otley. There isn’t a circular walk around the reservoir like the others but there are plenty…
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A new route of mud and destruction
I’m still laughing about the walk we did yesterday. The mud we encountered was on a par with our trip up Yokenthwaite. Looking back it was a little bonkers. I had sold it to the team as another reservoir walk, but we were exploring 2 reservoirs that we’d not yet been too. It was another…