Cowling Pinnacle

Mabel had slept over last night so we were doing a short Sunday morning walk. The weather was dull and overcast but when we set off it was fine.  I decided we wouldn’t park in the bottom of Cowling itself but in the small car park on Buck Stones Lane.  This made it a high level straight walk.  We set off and it was a cold wind blowing on us. 

As we got to the Pinnacle (Wainmans) we met a group of teenagers scrambling over the rocks on their motorbikes.  We stayed close to the wall edge as we walked past. 

We went through the stile and headed off to Lunds Tower. 

It definitely wasn’t getting any warmer and there was a fine drizzle starting to fall.  Even so we met lots of dog walkers who were out there although no-one was lingering to enjoy the view.  Which to be honest was deteriorating rapidly now.  We got to the tower and started up with a small torch I’d brought – it wasn’t much good so I had to use my phone torch, we didn’t go far up as it was still pretty dark and Mabel didn’t want to go any higher.  So we came back down I took a few photographs and we set off back the way we had come. 

When we got back to the car we were both pretty cold.  Mabel’s feet felt like icicles and so did my hands.  Keelham in Skipton was our next stop,  coffee for me and cake for Mabel – we had earned it.