Day 57 - 5th June, Hawes to Tan Hill Inn - 18.1 miles

Rather later than I'd intended a bought a picnic from the supermarket and headed off for the 'Green Dragon' waterfalls at Hardraw.

The Yorkshire way of celebrating the Queen's Jubilee
The rain started as I left Hardraw and was getting more serious as the path gained altitude
Through the mist I met Adrian from Rhoscolyn, Holy Island, Anglesey.
He's walking end-to-end and has started from John o'Groats on April 19th. His wife is supporting part of his journey with their camper van but he was also camping in Scotland. He come down through Aberfeldy but was also enthusing about the John o'Groats way up the East Coast from Inverness. I still need to sort out my route through the North of Scotland. 
Orange poppies holding on tenaciously close to the summit of Black Hill, 1890 feet.
At the top of Great Shinner Fell, 2350 feet.

More cairns on the way down - getting cold walking into the wind again. 
Dropping down towards Thwaite, with the weather improving, I met this chap

...he turned his nose up at a piece of garlic chicken sandwich. Amazing how quickly he then turned and disappeared - invisible in the marram grass.

You can find beauty when you least expect it. 

- looking out towards Arkengarthwaite Moor.
Eventually, after what seemed like a long last climb up from Keld, it was great to see the Tan Hill Inn.
This was the place that was on the news last Christmas when everyone, customers and staff were locked in by heavy snow drifts for 4 days. Nicola, who runs the pub
told me she was interviewed by radio stations from all around the world - on one day she was being interviewed 'on air' from 0530 until 0230 the following morning. 

I joined Nigel and Duncan for supper - they'd yomped all the way and arrived ages before me. I mistakenly decided to go for the 'special'
I had a bed in an 8 person bunkroom
shared with Chris who'd fallen on the walk earlier in the day and had cut his face badly.
He'd been camping and had gone to the bother of pitching his tent but better judgement had kicked in and he'd decided at last minute to take a bed in the bunkroom instead.

At the end of the evening, walking out to the bunkroom, ......
the prospects for the morning weren't promising.

Total distance walked so far = 742.5 miles
Total ascent so far 90 739 feet

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Comments

  1. Anonymous9 June 2022 at 09:13

    great photo with ''the special''
    impressed again
    Y.

    ReplyDelete
  2. TT12 June 2022 at 23:23

    What a rare treat to see the lonesome hedgehog...!×

    ReplyDelete

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