Settle to Skipton

8 June, 2013

19.3 mls, 31.06 km

2500 ft, 762.0 m

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Settle

Skipton

Settle Station

07:15 to 14:10

Yorkshire Dales

Walk Number 442

Walk Notes:

A beautiful summer day, with sun all day, a light breeze to cool me and dry underfoot throughout. A tough 19+ miles today to help me beat my personal best on this year’s GCC Challenge. At the end I felt great, with plenty more walking in me if I’d needed it. Around Sharpah I realised I’d lost my car key somewhere along the route, so called the RAC while on the path. They arrived about 20 mins after I did at the car and the guy fished out the spare key from the hidey hole in the centre console with a metal wire! Great day out, despite that.

I parked at Skipton and got the train to Settle for today's walk, this is Settle station at 7:15 on a very promising looking morning
There's no walk-in today, it's straight up the hills, using the lane to gain height towards the limestone scars
One of my favourite of all limestone valleys - this is Warrendale Knotts with Attermire Scar beyond it
My favourite photo of the day - looking along the wall to the limestone escarpment of Warrendale Knotts
The valley is enclosed along one length by limestone walls and on the other by rolling green hills - it really is a lovely place to be
Some seriously impressive holes in this sheet metal - must have been used for big gun target practice at some point!
Attermire Scar and Warrendale Knotts
Attermire Scar and Warrendale Knotts
A final look back to Attermire Scar and Warrendale Knotts - limestone heaven
Looking along the old bridleway over Kirky Fell, linking Malham and Settle - an excellent path and now part of the Pennine Bridleway
This is Nappa Cross - according to the OS map, it is restored, but not quite sure what that means
Looking across to Malham Tarn, from the Langscar path
Approaching Watlowes
More limestone grandeur, this is the dry valley of Watlowes, part of the Pennine Way and leads down to Malham Cove
Walking down Watlowes dry valley
Watlowes
Limestone pavement above Malham Cove
The hugely impressive Malham Cove, from the path on Sheriff Hill
Watlowes valley and surrounding limestone escarpment, seen from the path on Sheriff Hill above Malham Cove
It really is summer now! This flowering hay meadow is above Cawden Flats Barn
Looking up Hawthorns Lane, beside Gordale Scar, my path runs all the way up the valley beside the old field system
On the summit of Weets Top, this standing stone sits beside Weets Gate
The trig point on Weets Top, with spectacular views across the Dales
The old waller made good use of the surrounding rock formations, beside the trig point on Weets Top
Crossing the head of Winterburn Reservoir and an impressive old bridge gives access to the path beyond
The arrow straight track down Moor Lane into Hetton is baking hot in the relentless heat - approaching the noon intensity - it's certainly warm now!
More flowering hay meadows, this time on the way into Flasby, beside Flasby Beck
Into the trees of Crag Wood, beneath the slopes of Sharpah
It was about here that I realised I'd lost my car keys somewhere on the path - I spent the next hour trying to sort out a solution
Entering Skipton and some sort of carnival parade is going on with a procession of trucks moving slowly through the back streets
Back at Skipton station and just ahead of the RAC man, who extracates my spare key from the hidey hole inside the car - clever bloke!

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