When the daylight hours reduce, the temperature plummets and the snow hopefully begins to fall, there is only one thing to do and that’s get out and enjoy it whilst you can! Winter walks are the best. Pull on the woolly hat and gloves, pour a flask of hot chocolate and embrace the day with […]
Above the tops of Settle, North Yorkshire is a beautiful area overlooking the valley with the Yorkshire 3 Peaks in the distance, the river in the bottom and then across to the sights of Pendle Hill. This circular route of 8.5 miles starting in Stainforth is a challenging walk which takes in the highlights of […]
Location: YDNP car park in Horton in Ribblesdale, BD24 0HE Distance: 6 miles. Took 3 hours including rest stops The first in the Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge, Pen-y-Ghent is a fine little mountain at 694m high. It may be the smallest of the peaks but it’s the steepest. Some practical advice before you start climbing […]
Over the last few years I have started a little obsession with trig points! It was an obsession which made sense to me as a Civil Engineer. I spent years surveying so when I discovered trig points on my walks I needed to know the 2 that could be used to triangulate the spot where […]
Location: BD22 0JZ, car park off Buck Stone Lane Distance 2.5km On the tops above Sutton and Cowling sit the Salt and Pepper Pots, two pinnacles that dominate the Aire Valley skyline. Their real names are Wainman’s Pinnacle and Lunds Tower but everyone knows them as the Salt and Pepper Pots (don’t ask me which […]
Location: Hebers Ghyll Drive, LS29 9QH Distance: 2km Hebers Ghyll is a beautiful woodland located at the bottom of Ilkley Moor. The woodland is on the hillside with a raging stream falling through it. Parking was free on the roadside on Hebers Ghyll Drive. The walk that we did was a loop of the wood […]
Location: Grange Road, Farnhill, BD20 9AJ Distance: 2km What3words: splints.trumpet.clues Farnhill pinnacle is a memorial unlike any other I’ve seen. You will remember this one that’s for sure. The Jubilee Tower, as it is otherwise know, sits only a short walk above the village of Farnhill. Parking is free on the roadside of Grange Road. […]
Location: Layby parking, BD23 6DJ Distance: 6km Last Summer me and my old man decided to climb up to Simons Seat. Having always lived local we have never actually done this walk and wow we were impressed! Simons Seat is the summit of Barden Moor and is a collection of gritstone boulders with a trig […]
Updated December 2023 Location: Parking in lay-by on the approach to Rylstone, BD23 6LH What3words: Lay-by is ///loyal.hawks.bleaker . Start of walk is ///nobody.daydreams.mistaken Distance: 5km Rylstone Cross is a war memorial sat high and proud on the rocky ridge overlooking the Gateway to the Dales, Skipton and Wharfedale. This walk is challenging due to […]
Updated December 2023 Location: Off road parking by the cattle grid on Carleton Moor What3words: Starting point at kissing gate – ///equity.decency.continued Distance: less than 2km Pinhaw Beacon located on the tops of Carleton Moor above Elslack is a pretty easy trig point to bag. The views are unreal. Parking is in the makeshift car […]