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- God’s Bridge
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- Grassholme Reservoir, where there’s still a Portaloo that’s very useful not just for its advertised function but as a brief respite to sort yourself out in bad weather.
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- My Innocent smoothie bottle is not so innocent…
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- As ever, Kirkcarrion broods over Middleton
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- I camped here on a previous Pennine Way. At this rate in a few years walking the Pennine Way will take me a month if I have to visit everywhere I’ve camped.
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- From this cairn just past Ravock Castle you can see the useful bad weather shelter at Deep Dale. It would be so great if a few more landowners were this kind to hikers.
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- The friendly little tuck shop near Collin Hill, where you can also fill your water bottle.
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- The famous ‘halfway, suckers’ trail marker at the A 66.
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- McFarlane’s finest. Apart from their pork and apple.
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- Final view of Tan Hill. From now on it gets wilder.
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- By the time I’d enjoyed my lavish breakfast the sky was blue over Tan Hill.
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- Early doors at Tan Hill
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- We must now add dodgy boardwalks to the dodgy rocks already on the Falcon Clints risk assessment
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- Compulsory High Force selfie.
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- The distinctly unexciting ‘scramble’, and a good job too as I hate heights.
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- The all weather bridge at Maize Beck. A gamekeeper told me why it’s so high – the previous stepping stones, each the weight of a family car, were simply washed away in a flood.
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- Do not become so hypnotised by the boring track you miss this vital sign off it to High Cup!
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- The weather was a bit ominous…
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- Teesdale Juniper berries
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- In the unlikely event anybody wants to install a bench in my memory, I’ll have this one near Langdon Beck. Posthumous thanks.
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- Perhaps the original green roof?
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- Expletive deleted and friends…
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- High Cup Nick, viewed extensively.
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- High Cup is (altogether now…) famous for extensive views.
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- Horsezillas in the mist at High Cup
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- The steep climb up to Knock Old man is one of the hardest on the whole Pennine Way, especially in pouring rain.
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- On the way down the fog did lift a little, giving vaguely extensive views over the Vale of Eden
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- A healthy breakfast was procured from another friendly little trail tuck shop at Bow Hall on the way down to Dufton. Thank you.
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- Looking up to Cross Fell, the last of the clouds lifting.
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- Seriously, it was brightening up…
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- Greg’s Hut, brought out of shadow with Photoshop, obviously, but the sunset is real ;)
