Not quite to infinity and beyond but still a really cracking 22 mile run for me and the boy Harry from Horton on Saturday. We hacked over Pen y Ghent and Plover Hill and then dropped down to Foxup at the top of Littondale, trotted down the lane to Halton Gill, climbed up to Horse Head on the ridge beyond and followed the ridge line from there all the way to the trig point on Firth Fell. At this point, almost 13 miles in, we finally turned for home and descended the ridge to Litton, where we somewhat annoyingly had to to run straight past the Queens Arms where several (smug) mountain bikers and walkers were enjoying a pint in the sun. Me and Haz then took the bridleway from there in a (loooong) straight line for Dale Head on the Pennine Way, followed that track half way up Pen y Ghent before finally dropping down to home on the Bracken Bottom path from the shoulder of Pen y Ghent.
What a stunning route and Littondale (which Hester calls the valley that time forgot) was just gorgeous.
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| Looking back down the Pennine Way on the way up Pen y Ghent |
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| 3 Peakeroos below |
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| A handy drink station for the boy |
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| Harry on the way to Plover Hill |
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| I'm wearing my 'Just William' fell running socks today |
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| The start of our drop down to Foxup from Plover Hill |
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| Harry's big country (cue Big Country theme music) |
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| Foxup (a farm and two houses more-or-less) ahoy! |
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| Halton Gill and Littondale in all their glory |
A video panorama of some of the peaks of the southern Dales from the Horse Head ridge
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| Fountains Fell on the left with Pen y Ghent and Plover Hill on the right |
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| Harry peat grough hopping |
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| Dropping down to Litton |
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| Littondale again |
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| The River Skirfare in full flow! |
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| The far side of Pen y Ghent |
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| Pen y Ghent front on |
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| Hurrah! Home in view |
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| Ze route |
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