Stolly's adventures 2009

1. Gisburn Forest Trail and Whelp Stone Crag

Date: 02/01/09
Distance: 10.5 miles
Ascent/descent: 950 ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 38

Well I've decided to carry on with a 2009 version of stolly's running adventures........ for better or worse! (Hopefully much better).

Yesterday I forced my flu racked body to get up and at 'em and run for the first time in 10 days, feeling at long last like I'd be able to run and not die in the attempt! I didn't fancy anything too hard though so I popped over to Gisburn Forest to run the 10 mile mountain bike trail with an added swerve off to the top of Whelp Stone Crag. As expected the views from the top were fantastic:

Ingleborough on the horizon with it's head in the clouds:

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Panning to the right Pen y Ghent and Fountain's Fell with the rest of Whelp Stone Crag in the foreground:

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Whelp Stone trig looking the other way with Pendle behind:

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Looking back into the forest from the crag with much of my route back in there somewhere:

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Anyway a cracking first run of the year even though I coughed up a lung in the process!

Fab stuff Stolly....:) Glad you're back up and about, might start taking my camera more often and stop leaving it in the car without battery :rolleyes:

Good to see an '09 log with pics. Pics are good.

Excellent Stolly. I really enjoy reading these, good photos too:D

2. Barden Bridge and Barden Fell Loop

Date: 03/01/09
Distance: 7 miles
Ascent/descent: 1,150 ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 24 (including lots of pratting about with the dog)

A final run this morning with Kelly before she buggers off to America for six months - I had in mind 13 miles but she was having none of it, then 10, then 9 but finally pinned her down to a measley 7 miler! She chose to bring Lottie along too, her boyfriend's nutter cocker spaniel. We drove to Barden Bridge choosing to run along the Wharfe and then hack up onto Barden Fell before dropping down to the Valley of Desolation and Strid Woods for the final couple of miles run in.

Just starting to climb above Appletreewick:

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Valley of Desolation:

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The Strid viewed from above on the east bank - last time I came past here the river was a white water raging torrent and everything was maybe a further 15 feet under! Very placid today:

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By the way Lottie wasn't supposed to run over Barden Fell - no dogs allowed you see - but we did anyway, keeping her on her leash mind and away from any grouse or pheasants.

Your daughter must be a better runner than me because my legs are like jelly since auld lang syne.

The view across the wall in the first pic is fantastic!

Good work Stolly - I'm pleased you're continuing with your running diary :)

3. Pen y Ghent and Long Mires from Horton

Date: 11/01/09
Distance: 8.5 miles
Ascent/descent: 1,700 ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 39

Okay this was a complete wimp out - I set out (in the freezing, wind whipped rain I hasten to add :)) this morning fully intending to run all 24 miles of the 3 peaks.................. it just didn't end up that way is all!

Two major factors contributed to me changing my mind. Firstly, although I've got over the flu, I still have blocked sinuses and coming off Pen y Ghent I was cold and had a horrible catarrh taste in the back of my mouth and sort of started worrying about potentially making things worse, what with a long rain battered cold run over two more icey mountains still ahead of me. Secondly there was just so much ice about as to make running extremely dangerous and slow. And where the ground wasn't ice it was perma frost covered in a slippy film of water.

I think had the ground been okay I'd have run all the way regardless and had I fully recovered from the flu I wouldn't have cared about the ice. Having both at the same time though and, by the time I got to Long Mires (on the 3P route) frozen hands inside sopping wet gloves (from the three falls on the ice experienced by that point) I decided to 'live to fight another day' and retreated back towards Horton down the Pennine Way. Even that proved difficult with all the sheet ice about!

All the same the run, such as it was, was still fun in a semi lethal sort of way. The view looking up the final shoulder before the top of Pen y Ghent:

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Me having 'great fun' on my lonesome in the mist and ice at the top of Pen y Ghent:

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The view towards Long Mires which is just over the next ridge line:

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My hands were chill blain cold at Long Mires but I managed to revive them gradually by taking my gloves off and pulling the sleeves down on my water proof. Ironically I felt fine once I'd got back to my car in Horton but with hind sight I'm glad I cut the 3 peak attempt short. Next week maybe?

Next Friday Stolly, 9:30 start?

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Let me think about it - I'll need to check my work diary as well. Hopefully it won't be so icey by Friday either way; it was seriously bad today and like running on a frigging glacier in places!

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4. Three Peaks Fell Race Recce

Date: 15/01/09
Distance: 23 and a bit miles
Ascent/descent: 5,200 ft
Route map
Time: 4 hours 33

After my aborted attempt at the weekend to run the 3 Peaks, Ady kindly offered to go round today. The weather was crappish - cold, misty, windy and wet - so it was nire on perfect conditions for the 3 peaks :D. Fortunately Ady had raced in a Wharfedale Harriers inspired nutter (sorry bat) head torch race up to Rylstone Cross last night so, with a bit of luck, I thought I'd be able to hang in there with him....... so long as he didn't find a second wind from somewhere.

To begin with we didn't exactly follow the race route, choosing to go up the 'fun' side of Pen y Ghent rather than the Pennine Way way and coming down we followed the Miners Path line to Long Mires rather than the race route (which again sticks to the Pennine Way more to presumably avoid soil erosion etc). After that though it was the race route all the way, including the never ending ridge after bleeding ridge followed by an on all fours crawl up the final 200 metres (seems like a 1000) to the top of Whernside.

It was music to my ears when, having reached the trig on top of Pen y Ghent (what 3 miles in), Ady actually complained about his stiff calves. I promptly showed no mercy and flew down the side of the mountain leaving (for the first time ever) Ady eating mud in my wake. He was wearing trail shoes too which might have given him a few grip issues on the slick muddy ground....... tough titty!

Before we knew it (well after about an hour and forty minutes) we were at Ribblehead and decided to follow the race route up Whernside rather than the much easier but much longer walkers route. This was easier said than done, relying heavily on my memory with low cloud and mist completely obscuring the top. As it was we actually crested the ridge about 150 yards to the left (south west) of the trig so had to back track a little but not bad navigation for me. Incredibly no cramp either!

Up here its was bitterly cold with a howling wind so we didn't hang about and were soon hacking off of Whernside for Chapel le Dale in the valley between Whernside and Ingleborough. The wind had picked up at lower levels now and I now suffered a bit on the slow chug up Ingleborough, running into a headwind which made me have to put twice the effort in to seemingly run at half the pace. Ady was now forging on and had solved his calf problems more or less completely so all I could do was grit my teeth and get on with it.

The trig on Ingleborough was also a wind blown freezing moon scape so, again, we didn't hang about but proceeded to eat up the final 5 miles left getting back to Horton. I had a few little twinges of cramp on top of Ingleborough but these went pretty quickly and I actually enjoyed the final run in and surprisingly felt in pretty good nick all the way down.

It was a good recce time for me too at 4:33, only 11 minutes slower than my race time last year. Ady of course needs to make sure he knocks at least an hour off that in the actual race in April!

It wasn't a classic day for photography but we took a couple of pictures:

Ady moaning about his calves on top of Pen y Ghent:

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Looking down the valley from the still only severely steep side of Whernside (just before the very, very steep side which itself precedes the fcuking stupidly steep side) :

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Stolly just about visible in the gloom at the Whernside Trig:

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A fantastic bash and thanks Ady for the company.

awww, i'm missing the fells, great pics and descriptions mate, you only need refer to these when you're writing your memoirs

great photos, routes and writing
will have to keep on eye on this:)

5. Hanlith, Kirkby Fell, Malham Cove and Gordale Scar Circuit

Date: 17/01/09
Distance: 10 miles
Ascent/descent: 1,725 ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 52

Okay this run was a bit of a slow chug following on from the 3 peaks on Thursday but it was all in all absolutely stunning. Starting from Hanlith Bridge (Hanlith being a small hamlet just east of Kirkby Malham) I ran up the west bank of the river to Malham before branching off up the farm track in the direction of Kirkby Fell.

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Eventually I dragged my 'leggy' legs to the top and had a fine view looking back the other way with Hanlith probably on the far right on this picture:

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Then it was a case of running the ridgeline down towards Malham Tarn before dropping into the gulley that leads to the top of Malham Cove.

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Malham Cove as viewed from a virtigo inducing cliff edge on the east side:

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End of part 1.........

Part 2…

From Malham Cove I ran over to Gordale but when I got there, instead of running up the valley bottom, I ran up the obvious trod to the top of the west ridge over looking Gordale Scar in all its weird and wonderfulness:

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Then it was just a case a going down into the pit of the Gordale waterfalls and clambering down the spray slick rocks to the valley floor.

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From here I ran down past Janet’s Foss, another beautiful waterfall (surrounded by tourists), through the woods and down the footpath following Gordale Beck before branching left and following the Pennine Way back to my car at Hanlith. An absolutely brilliant run and route and giving me a total of 49 miles for the week (which I’m rounding up to 50).

Apologies for going into picture overload by the way!

6. Ingleborough from Newby

Date: 18/01/09
Distance: Almost 7 miles
Ascent/descent: 1,850 ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 18

I love this run and today I was lucky enough to time my run to coincide with a sunny break in the weather. Up the lane out of Newby, straight across the Ingleton Clapham top road and through the fell gate and it was all open moor all the way up. It actually looked from a distance that there had been a dusting of snow on the tops but up close it was actually more like a dusting of hail pellets.

The mountain on the horizon would like to kid you that its Ingleborough but its actually Little Ingleborough with Ingleborough itself out of sight behind:

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Looking back in the direction of Clapham I guess from the flank of Little Ingleborough:

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And the view towards Pen y Ghent some 7 or 8 miles away and partially hidden under cloud:

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Finally Ingleborough itself shows its face:

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After getting to the trig point after 47 minutes, the wind and weather and what felt like a minus 15 wind chill kicked in and all the views were lost in a mixture of hail and cloud. Nothing left to do other than whiz down a fantastic 3.5 mile descent all the way back to Newby. A cracker.

Oh and I know I'm asking for some bright spark to post a foot high reply to wind me up but can everyone with immediate effect stop calling Ingleborough Inglebugger!!! I love this hill and have a great respect for it and affinity with it and it pains me when others insult such a lovely mountain (hehe).

7. A recce of stage 2 of the High Peak Marathon - Cutthroat Bridge to Snake Pass....... via a shit load of peat!

Date: 25/01/09
Distance: At a guess 18.5 miles plus an unknown amount of meandering
Ascent/descent: 2,500 ft
Route map
Time: 5 hours and 2 minutes

Well I'm down to run the HPM as part of the Rabid Dogs team (yes a barking name I know!) and felt that a recce the nightmare on elm street middle section was absolutely necessary. Only one of my team, Dave, was able to help today and so, after dumping my car at Snake Pass, we drove over the Cutthroat Bridge to start the long loop round. I'm crap at all the names of the key bits of this run but broadly we follow a ridge line for quite a way up and beyond Lads Leep and, soon after a trig at Margery Hill, its then pretty much bogs all the way for just sodding miles and miles.

Along the top of Outer Edge and Howden Edge all the way to Bleaklow and a mile beyond was just a morass that later turned into a maze like and even boggier series of... well what I'd best describe as 'bog dunes'. I'm a mud person at heart, a mudmeister, an expert in all things mud, but jesus I have never been anywhere like this before. The bog was relentless. I thought that when runners referred to the 'bogmonster' up here it was maybe a very very big boggy patch; that it actually covered maybe 7 or 8 miles was something of a surprise to me! Having finally waded through that lot it was a great relief to finally hit the Pennine Way and whiz down the last 3 miles to the car again at Snake Pass. Phew. Bogzilla or what?

The run actually started easy enough though with great views of the surrounding ridges with a snowy Bleaklow, our penultimate goal, in sight on the far horizon:

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But when the bogs started it became a humungus trawl through water and mud. I went thigh deep in the bogs several times too and once falling through ice into a freezing thigh deep deep pool. Here's me having landed in one of the slightly shallower bogs:

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The wind then picked up on the long haul to Bleaklow and, although it was fairly cold, I think we got away with the weather all in all. All the same I couldn't help but wonder what the hell it will be like doing much of this in the dark in potentially crap weather on the day of the HPM. Tough going would be an understatement I imagine.

Some of the tamer bog dunes just beyond Bleaklow:

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All I can say is that it was awsomely tough terrain and I was very pleased to get round it in 5 hours. Oh and thanks to Marvin and his mate - I can't tell you how comforting it was to see your fell shoes prints every now and then, see you in the distance occasionally and be reassured that we were on course.... or at least no more lost than you.

you look far too happy in that boggy bit:D

If you think the bogs look boggy in daylight, just wait until you're up there at night. It feels like the whole area is one never-ending bog.

Thanks for the credit, and yes, we did know where we were.

7. A scoot up to the top of High Hill and back from home

Date: 28/01/09
Distance: Almost 4 miles
Ascent/descent: 850 ft
Route map
Time: 50 minutes (including 7 or 8 minutes being awestruck)

Apologies, I wouldn't normally post a write up of one of my bog standard mid week trots but this evening was a bit of an exception. I managed to finish work early and was driving back to Settle over the moor road from Airton in bright sunshine - suddenly, when I came to High Side in the middle of the highland cattle field, before me in the valleys everything was under a curtain of fog. It looked absolutely stunning. It was about 4 o'clock by the time I got home so I immediately grabbed my camera, threw on my running gear and set off in the fog to see if I could get above the cloud line before either the sun set or the fog rose too high.

To be honest I didn't have any high hopes and, even as I was climbing the side of High Hill itself, the fog was still thick and I suspected thta the sun may have already set. Anyway my determination paid off and right near the top I popped out into the last of the sunshine. I took about a dozen pictures and its been a job to weed out which ones were the best. These give an overall impression of the views I guess:

The view to the east towards Scosthrop High Moor:

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Pendle Hill on the horizon:

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The sun going down:

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Rye Loaf hill and Stockdale Valley slightly to the north east:

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Fell running huh? What ever do you get out of it..........

Stunning pics Stolly, the stuff of dreams:cool:

Stolly i have enjoyed your thread most of all from this forum, your photography skills are topnotch, love your photos, you should have a blog for the world to see the adventures you have, as your pictures are amazing! xx

Stolly, amazing pics. Alot of people at work wonder why I do the fell running thing and showing them the pics you've taken over the last year always gets a lot of nodded approvals.
Can't wait to show them the pics tomorrow......
Just wish I had been there to see it myself.:D

8. Horton, Pen y Ghent, Plover Hill, Foxup, Eller Carr and Langstrothdale Loop

Date: 01/02/09
Distance: 16.5 miles
Ascent/descent: 3,250 ft
Route map
Time: 3 hours 20

There was an arctic wind howling all night and spits of snow in the air first thing so this run looked ideal for some proper cold weather HPM training. For the first time since maybe last January I put on my running tights rather than shorts, wore two tops under my wind proof and I set off thinking I'd be ready for anything.

As expected the wind picked up massively as I neared the top of Pen y Ghent. There was also a shed load of icey snow about.

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Once past the trig point and slightly sheltered by the wall, the wind died back a bit but from here on ice and iced snow became very problematic, especially on north facing slopes where the snow had accumulated, not melted and been turned to solid ice by the cold. Even where there were old foot prints in this ice snow it was dangerously frictionless (unless the footprints had some depth to them) and I tippy toed and if need be slid on my jacksy as best as I could over and down these bits.

The route to Plover Hill (just follow the wall) winding before me:

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After Plover Hill there is a cliff that drops down into Foxup Moor. This cliff has a narrow track that cuts a line down the side but, to get to that track, I first had to get across a 40 or 50 ft band of frozen ice snow and what's more it was nicely angled downwards at 45 degrees. This obstacle looked impassable to me and to try to cross it could see me whizzing off the cliff to my doom - frustratingly I could see all of the Foxup valley with my next ridgeline nicely beckoning beyond that but I just couldn't see a (survivable) way over the ice.

This picture looking towards Foxup doesn't quite show how deadly the ice appeared to me but its that band of snow in the foreground that was stopping my progress:

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In the end I tracked along the ridge line towards Foxup and found a marginally less dangerous and shorter place to cross the ice. It was still bleeding dangerous enough though and I was extremely glad to make it down onto the safer ground below. The view to my immediate left having safely descended the ice bank:

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Anyway, once down, I scrambled my way down to the main track that took me all the way to Foxup and then climbed directly up the opposite slope heading for the footpath over Eller Carr and then down into Langstrothdale. Last time I came this way with Ady, we cut too oblique a diagonal up this hill and pretty much never found the path we wanted so this time I played it safe and followed the wall up. I soon found the right path and scooted over the ridgeline into the pine forested valley of Langstrothdale.

After a while on the descent I veered off the main path and headed for the pine forest on my side of the valley. I had to cross a fence but found an entrance into the forest via a firebreak which soon turned into the forest trail that I was looking for. This trail I figured would be more fun than running along the road that tracks in the same direction in the valley floor. But boy did this forest trail go on and on; it was only after about 4 miles that I eventually came out the other side and was all set to follow the Pennine Way back all the way to Horton.

A brilliant run in trying conditions. I didn't get cold at all either even on the tops with the eye watering wind chill. That said I sweated cobs going through that forest.

Cracking pictures of your last two runs Stolly...they just get better and better! ;)
Great for me to look at and dream of being up there!
I'm going to the Lakes for Valentine weekend so plan on an ickle walk...maybe Catbells or something not too strenuous for a fat old bird!!! :D

9. Goyt Valley, Cat & Fiddle, Shining Tor, Cats Tor and Erwood Reservoir Loop

Date: 04/02/09
Distance: Circa 12.5 miles
Ascent/descent: 1,850 ft
Route map
Time: 2 hours and 16

I had a work meeting in Etwall near Derby this morning and had pre-planned a run in the peak district for this afternoon to break up my return journey. Baaarby from the forum kindly pointed me in the direction of the peak trail runner web site and recommended route 10, starting at Erwood Reservoir and running a 12.5 mile loop up to Axe Edge to the south and back. This seemed a fantastic suggestion and Erwood Reservoir was bang on my route home if I went via Buxton and Whaley Bridge.

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon with no wind at all and a shed load of deep snow making the hills just stunning and I couldn't wait to get out, up and into them. All of this area in the peak district was very snowy and the Goyt Valley itself was basically cut off by it, with the road down to the reservoir shut to all but four wheel drive vehicles. This meant that I had to start my run from the top of the hill just off the Whaley Bridge road.

No probs with that though and, as the lane was 6 inches to a foot deep in snow, it was effectively off road running all the way. Given that I was starting high, I decided to run the loop clockwise. I’d armed myself with a print out of the peak trail runner Axe Edge map and incredibly for me had no problems using that and finding all the right paths, even those obscured by the snow.

I’d arrived later than I’d hoped, had to start further back from the reservoir because of the road being closed and more or less had to be home by 6 pm so, while running up towards Goyt’s Moss, I changed from the planned route on the hoof, thinking that perhaps I should make it a little shorter. (That said when I worked out which hill was Axe Edge on the skyline I almost changed my mind back again). I chose to hook right along what was an old unused road that turned into a lane heading directly for the Cat & Fiddle pub.

This pub, and some kind of radar mast adjacent to it, dominate the ridgeline to the west when viewed from the point I took the old road. The main road from Buxton to Macclesfield runs straight past this pub – which is apparently the second highest pub in the UK or something – and once I got up there I had to run a hundred yards or so in the slush beside this road before taking my path back north towards the reservoir again.

At this point I then made another change of route plan and, instead of following the more direct line, I hacked off to my left up to the top of Shining Tor to follow that ridgeline to Cats Tor and beyond, before picking up the snow covered road back to the reservoir from there. To a large extent this re-lengthened my run back to the originally planned 12.5 mile distance…. doh!

It was a marvelous extension to the run though and the snow was fantastically deep on this ridge with many drifts after Shining Tor trig being 3 or 4 feet deep. It was just stunning running and, before I knew it, I was back on the snow covered Goyt valley road down to the reservoir, before heading back up the hill (with a deep snowy ‘short cut’ through the fields) back to my car.

All in all gob smackingly brilliant. Hopefully the pictures speak for themselves.

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There's more....

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Chuffing fantastic!

Chuffing fantastic pics again, is that a monster in the lake?

Cracking photos Stolly! :cool:

Stunning pics Stolly.....

More fabness....love it! :cool:

Excellent Stolly

Awesome snaps Stolly & as usual always a cracking read.

very nice indeed, impressive, you go on some great runs, i'm jealous to say the least

That's one of my favourite local(ish) areas to go running. If you're back in the area the Windgather race route is worth a look round as well, http://www.fellraces.co.uk/. I usually park at Erwood resevoir as well, and then run the race route from halfway round.

That website looks very useful!

10. Settle Hills

Date: 07/02/09
Distance: 7.5 miles
Ascent/descent: 1,750ft
Route map
Time: 1 hour 26

Another snowy run in the hills this morning, this time from home following the route of the Settle Hills fell race. Marvelous.

Tussocks:

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Once at the highest point, the absolute best view ever of Pen y Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough all together opens up. Unfortunately to get them all in the same frame with my camera is just too wide an angle to see them properly, other than as small lumps on the horizon, so here's just Ingleborough, Simon Fell and Whernside on their own

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Looking back over my shoulder on the final climb up the back of High Hill and pretty much all the countryside that I've just looped around is there to see.

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The view just before dropping straight off the steep side of High Hill:

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Lovely run out and spiffing weather again.

Once again... stunning views.:)

What camera you using Stolly? I want one!

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One of them with stunning views in front of it:cool: