5th July 2009

today's walk: Dent - Great Coum - Whernside - Dent


the main street through Dent


looking up Dentdale from a viewpoint above Flinters Gill


the Howgill fells from the same spot


looking down Dentdale from the bridleway below Great Coum


looking up Dentdale from the bridleway


looking into the sun to the silhouette of Whernside from the bridleway


looking up Dentdale from three of the many cairns at the Megger Stones


the ridge onto Great Coum from near the Megger Stones


looking back down the ridge into Dentdale


the cairn on Great Coum ..


.. looking back at the cairn from the area of the vague summit which is further east


360 degree panorama from the cairn on Great Coum - click on the image for a larger version


the county stone looking from Cumbria into a wedge of Yorkshire


looking into the Ease Gill valley with Yorkshire on the left and Cumbria on the right


Great Coum from the spot where I rejoin the bridleway ..


.. and from the slopes of Whernside with the bridleway curving down on the right


Ingleborough from the slopes of Whernside


Whernside trig point is in Cumbria with Yorkshire through the gap in the wall ..


.. and a startling change of scene - the tent is for the marshalls of the Marie Curie 3 peaks challenge


Ingleborough from the top of Whernside


the Ribblehead viaduct from the top of Whernside


heading down the north ridge towards Whernside Tarns


looking east from the ridge over the tarn on Greensett Moss


one of the Whernside Tarns looking west


the broad track leading down into Dentdale


storm brewing over Great Coum from the track


dark skies over Dentdale just before a torrential thunderstorm


the return path by the Dales Way


cricket resuming after the storm with Dent ahead


the main street through Dent