The June 20 walk was a trip to the border of Cumbria and the
Yorkshire Dales and a walk along the Howgills.
Anyone who has driven, or been driven, between junctions 36
and 40 of the M6 motorway would have noticed an impressive set of mountains on
the right, and these are the Howgills, awesome fells to view, especially with a
sprinkling of snow or frost: they are not huge heights, but they are impressive
hills, and once you are amid them you do get a sense of being between two
worlds: that of Yorkshire and that of the Lake District.
Our aim today was Cautley Spout and its nearby hill Great
Dummacks. We drove past Sedburgh and parked up at the Cross Keys pub, in
separate cars due to the Covid Pandemic – and it would have been nice to have
had pint after in said pub, but for the fact it was closed… due to the Covid
Pandemic.
It was Steve, me and Jake the dog and we left the cars and
crossed a small footbridge and followed an obvious path (the Pennine Way, in
fact) that ran beside the river and turned right up towards the hills. We could
see Cautley Spout almost immediately in the distance, a white scratch on the
side of the cliffs that was the water fall.
As we approached, the path grew steeper and we slowly passed
Cautley Spout, which is England’s highest waterfall, above ground. Once we passed
the waterfalls we turned left and along a ridge beside steep cliffs to the grassy
mound of Great Dummacks, whose summit bears one big stone and not much else. One
could go on to Calf from there, but we decided to leave that for another day
and took a very steep and grassy walk down the fellside back to the Pennine Way
and to the cars. Without a path, this seemed to take an age!
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