April 3rd -- Ingleton, Yorkshire Dales | |||||
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Mainly sunny and not too hot. Nice walking. Horizons misty. | |||||
The B- walk left Ingleton heading up to Thornton Hall and then across to Masongill Hall. From Masongill Hall there was a steady climb up to open moorland with misty views to the Lake District and surrounding area. Then along the top of Tow Scar and down to Beezleys with excellent views over Ingleborough. After crossing the River Doe on stepping stones the walk crossed the lower slopes of Ingleborough and then down into Ingleton. | |||||
Whatever's going on? | Heading for Thornton Hall | ||||
Lost or just a coffee stop? | Looking for a lunch stop | ||||
Sunny picnic | Ingleborough in the distance | ||||
Heading for the Tow Scar trig point | Downhill from here | ||||
Crossing the Twiss | Ingleborough | ||||
Beezley stepping stones | |||||
The C walk followed a shortened version of the B- route in the opposite direction. | |||||
Storrs Common | Green Lane to Ingleborough | ||||
Beezley stepping stones | |||||
Leading.. | ..by example | ||||
Leader's reward | |||||
The A walk followed an anticlockwise circuit heading first to Clapham then along Clapham Beck to Trow Gill across the moors to lunch by Gaping Gill. Next a two-stage climb to Little Ingleborough and Ingleborough then back down to Ingleton. | |||||
Ingleborough in the clouds | |||||
Contrasting styles.. | |||||
Chris makes friends | |||||
It's a cake-off! | |||||
Clapham Lake | |||||
Clapham Beck | Trow Gill | ||||
The stragglers put their best knees forward.. | |||||
The beck disappears | 100m down Gaping Gill | ||||
Alan toys with his death wish.. | ..then thinks better of it | ||||
Little Ingleborough, with Ingleborough proper beyond | |||||
Climbing | Little Ingleborough | ||||
The path to Ingleborough | |||||
Crowded on the summit | |||||
Stragglers again | |||||
Off we go.. | Whoops, wrong way! | ||||
Scrambling | down | ||||
And finally... | |||||
Photos by Phil Cunningham, Derek Hesketh, John Hodgson, Brian Johnson, Rick Moxon and David Whitehurst |