Walk #37: Horton in Ribbesdale to Hawes

ZY14 Ling Gill Bridge.		ZY15 The view towards Hawes.

General Data

Map of the walk

Notes

Today was quite an enjoyable day. I walked all day with Sam and Tony, and it was nice to have their good company. There were some nice views across the fells, and not much really steep uphill sections, just long inclines. The day was completed by finding out that Hawes had a chip shop that was open on a Sunday, so whilst Tony went exploring Hawes Sam and I just ate. It was sad to see that Cam High Road, and old Roman Road, had been massively rutted by motorbikes and cars - they really have ruined the surface and made it hard to walk along in places.

Whilst we were descending down into Hawes, we met a man and his sone who were busy climbing up the hillside. This was about 15.00 in the afternoon, and they looked very tried. It turns out that they were doing the Pennine Way north to south, and since they were running out of time they were compressing the whole of the Keld to Horton section into one day! They had already completed the climb over Great Shunner Fell from Hawes, and were now looking at doing the Cam High Road to Horton. They both looked very tired, and so I wished them the best whilst thinking that the odds were against them completing such a long day.

Hawes YHA was quite nice, and the town itself is the largest settlement that we have been through or near since Hebden Bridge. Sam and I spent some time in the late afternoon looking around the town once we had finished our chips and generally looking around the shops. I joined the other in the pub in the evening for a pint, but left early due to the fact that I was very tired. I am not an evening person at the best of times, but especially when I have just been backpacking for over a week.

Directions

I am not going to bother giving any directions for any of the stages of the Pennine Way; there are many route descriptions produced that will better anything that I could produce. The main guides I used were the OS National Trail Guides, which come complete with strip maps of the route. Click on one of the links below to go to the Amazon page for each guide.

National Trail Guide South		National Trail Guide North

Distances

This makes a total distance of 14.0 miles, with 1883 feet of ascent and 1801 feet of descent.

Disclaimer

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