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Sunday 22 July 2012

Lake District, Dale Head, Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike

7 Hours
Starting from the National Trust car park which is adjacent to Honister slate mine and free for myself my first objective was Dale Head.
Leaving the car park.
Looking across to Fleetwith Pike.

Sunday 15 July 2012

Yorkshire Dales, Pen-y-Ghent, Plover Hill, Foxup

6 1/2 hours.
From Horton in Ribblesdale a stroll up Pen-y-Ghent then over to Plover Hill away from the crowds and down to Foxup in Littondale before heading back to Horton in Ribblesdale skirting Fountains Fell and the shoulder of Pen-y-Ghent.
Completed without a drop of rain.

Pen-y-Ghent from just outside Horton in Ribblesdale on the busy path.
Near the top.

Sunday 1 July 2012

Yorkshire Dales, Ilkley Circular

6 hours.
A trip over Ilkey Moor and over to Round Hill on the edge of the Dales, back though Ilkley and up to Ilkley Crags finishing with some light refreshment in the Cow and Calf pub.

A view of Ilkley Moor in not the best weather.
After a while we came across some aircraft wreckage of a Halifax Bomber that came down on January 31st, 1944, off course on a night training exercise.
The memorial.