Me and Harold had a lovely
13 mile run from Dent on Saturday. Dent is a gorgeous Cumbrian village that is nevertheless part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park - its actually in perhaps the most quiet, unspoilt and beautiful corner of the Dales and well worth a visit to everyone that loves finding and exploring relatively unknown gems of the British countryside.
We ran up Whernside from the northern end, via the cairns and tarns, before dropping down from the trig point down to Kingsdale and then climbed up Great Coum and returned to Dent via the Megger Stones. A cracking run with a fair whack of snow still remaining on the tops. And a great pint of
Dent Aviator and a delicious Westmorland Sausage baguette in the George and Dragon afterwards (I gave Harry one of the sausages).
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| Climbing towards the cairns on Whernside |
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| Great Coum across the valley from Whernside |
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| Harry, a cairn and Great Coum looming beyond |
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| A not at all posed photo of me running with Dentdale behind |
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| An iced up tarn with Whernside top on the horizon |
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| Looking towards Ingleborough from Whernside |
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| Another cairn, this time on Great Coum |
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| Megger Stones (lots of mini cairns) |
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| Harry's washing off point just before we got back to Dent |
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