Dales Way

Day 6 Grayrigg – Bowness-on-Windemere (08/04/10) So the last day finally arrived.  A short bus journey back to Grayrigg followed by a short hop down to the trail itself.  On the way out of Greyrigg we were spotted by the local sheep, some of which came hurtling over towards us at full speed.   The [...]

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Day 5 Dent – Grayrigg (07/04/10) Lets start with the campsite.  Easy access from the Dalesway, it is right on the town and as the photo above shows, it’s in quite an outstanding location.  It was £4 a night for a pitch too, which isn’t bad.  The owners of the site, while being a tad [...]

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Day 4 Swarthgill Farm – Dent (06/04/10) We started this day fully expecting to get another soaking.  Again the great walking gods played with us, content to blast us with an icy wind blowing right up the valley.  For some reason I had assumed that the track up to Swarthgill would carry on up to [...]

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Day 3 Kettlewell – Swarthgill Farm (05/04/10) The decision to stay at the hostel proved to be an inspired one.  As we had breakfast it became apparent that, not only had it been raining for some time, it had been raining pretty heavily.  Putting the tent down in that would have been horrible! What on [...]

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Day 2 Appletreewick – Kettlewell (04/04/10) Despite it being a bit chilly, it had been a fairly comfortable night under canvas.  A little bit of late night rain had given way to clean, very crisp morning, although there were a few threatening clouds about that would linger for most of the day. Again this was [...]

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Dales Way 1

The Dales Way Day 1 – (Ilkley – Appletreewick 03/04/10) Prologue Unusually, we had planned to start walking the same day we travelled, so an early start ensued on a cold, grey and slightly damp morning. East Dunbartonshire currently must be the road building capital of Britain, or at least it seems like it at [...]

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