Well on our way to Scotland now

Hawes to Keld, 20 kilometres (12 miles)

We started the day with a long and steady ascent of Great Shunner Fell (716m),

Yorkshire's third highest mountain, 10 kilometres walking uphill.

 

 

It was a bit foggy but can you see the grouse on the path?

The summit

and then it cleared.

Lovely bed tonight at Butt House in Keld.

 

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Egton Bridge to Robin Hood's Bay

20.5 Miles or 32.7 kilometres

We are here! We made it!

It seemed such a long way.

Our first sighting of Whitby Abbey and the North Sea.

And over the empty moors.

See those power lines? Hold that thought.....

And here we are looking back at them after 2 hours of walking.

At last we sighted the coast up close but had more than hour to walk.

But still more up and down.....

And then at last, hoping the weather would hold, we saw our destination.

And most important of all:

we wet our boots in the ocean!

Kirkby Stephen to Keld

13 Miles or 21 kilometres and 732 metres up.

A beautiful day today.

No rain!

We made off through town to the first signpost.

Then up the hill and over dale...

To the summit, for today, to these Nine Standards.

And then....

Over this boggy ground. It was awful!

You know in those stories how the heroine is lost on the dales?

Sunk waiste deep in mud I would think.

It was treacherous.

I didn't really take photos. I was too busy trying not to sink in the mud!

The guide book says:
"It is worth taking your time to avoid the worst bogs by all means possible:
backtracking, taking a running jump, using a pole, using your partner as a plank:
whatever it takes."

The reward was going to be cream tea at this place.

Not today.

Are you enjoying our walk?

I think we are half way there!

Patterdale to Bampton Grange

13.4 Miles or 21.5 kilometres

 but we "walked" 1000 about metres up

and down again.

A beautiful fine day.

So we started the day here

around here

and up to Kidsty Pike, that pointy bit . Phew.

I did try and hitch a ride on a sheep's back!

and a brisk stroll along the top

then a hair raising descent ( I nearly took a dramatic shortcut)

and all along the side of  Haweswater.

A lovely way to wind down.

We have left the Lake District but picked up quite a few fellow walkers all going the same way.

None of them are quite sure where exactly we are.

The pub, debriefing, oh yes still in Cumbria the waitress said.

Oh and the meals have been well worth the walk!

Grasmere to Patterdale

A mere 7.5 miles or 12km

but about 900 meters up and 832 down

and I'm pooped.

Started with not much visibility but it is dramatic.

It didn't really improve

and we were climbing for the view.

And then all of a sudden it started to clear

 and we could see Grisedale Tarn

but as we got higher it didn't.

 Then as we walked along St Sunday Crag the view cleared,

but the wind was treacherous.

 The view of Ullswater: that's why we're here.

And then the rugged path down......