Our first outing of 2024 and after scaling the heights of Drumaldrace on Wether Fell, we headed off to conquer another mountain on the Dales 30 list - Calf Top, Middleton Fell. When we camped on Great Coum back in April 2023 we parked at the foot of Middleton Fell and had therefore already seen… Read More »
As a warm-up to our first wild camp of 2024 I thought it would be a good idea take a short stroll up to the summit of one of the easier Dales 30 mountains. It was a stroll because pretty much all of the height gain was achieved in the car. We only had to… Read More »
Great Coum is another one of the Dales 30 Hewitts and at 687m above sea-level it is placed at #9. It is our 18th Dales 30 Hewitt! It was a lovely warm day when we arrived, plenty of blue sky around. We had a nice long, steady walk along some tracks before we had to tackle Great… Read More »
Time to tackle another one of the Dales 30 Hewitts. This one, Baugh Fell, stands at 678m above sea-level and is placed at #12. This was a cold day and the wind was pretty relentless for the whole hike. There were so many false summits on the way to the top it stopped being funny… Read More »
Our last wild camp in June was to Nine Standards Rigg, the summit of Hartley Fell in the Pennines. It is close to the border between Cumbria and North Yorkshire, just a few miles South-East of Kirkby Stephen. It was a short but fun hike to the summit upon which stands a series of large cairns.
We decided to go somewhere different for our next wild camp and so headed to the little village of Buckden which is overlooked by Birks Fell on one side and Buckden Pike on the other. We headed up Birks Fell to Birks Tarn. What a steep climb that was! It was a little misty on… Read More »