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Great Pinseat

After all the recent rain, I needed a walk on reasonably good paths today and I've been meaning to tick off Great Pinseat for a while, but the problem is its one of those awkward hills that doesn't lend itself easily to a 12-ish mile walk. So I needed to extend it a little bit. I chose to visit the Old Gang Smelt Mill, not the bit on the C2C path, down on the road, but the flue that runs up the side of Reeth High Moor, the chimney on the top and then drop down to see the monstrous peat store that supplied Old Gang Mill with its peat. So a rather wavy track was trod today - wherever possible using paths I'd not used before - and paths most people don't use, so it was very quiet, in fact I only saw 4 people all day and they were on the 400 yards or so of C2C path I had to use. The full slideshow is available below.

Walk Details

Date: 2010-08-21

Start: Gunnerside    Finish: Gunnerside

Distance: 11.5 mls, 18.51 km

Height Gain: 2400 ft, 731.5 m

Start Time: 07:44    End Time: 12:36

Duration: 04:52

Ave Speed: 2.4 mph

Region: Yorkshire Dales

Route Description: Gunnerside, Winterings Scar, Bunton Husg, Friarfold Rake, Forefield Rake, Great Pinseat, Level House Bridge, Old Gang Mill, Brownsey Moor, Gunnerside

Parking Grid Ref: SD 95085 98218

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Walking with: Alone

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Hills on this Walk

3582 - Great Pinseat (1913 ft)

Trig Points on this Walk

TP6859 - Whaw Moor (Good condition)

Photos from this Walk

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Walk Name: Haweswater Circumference

Date: 2010-08-14
Distance: 11.0 mls, 17.70 km
Height Gain: 1200 ft, 365.8 m

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Date: 2010-08-28
Distance: 10.0 mls, 16.09 km
Height Gain: 1500 ft, 457.2 m