PinHaw Lothersdale

This is a good walk and it had stayed fine after 12 – also as the days are drawing in this may be the last weekend I get chance to bag a trig point this year. We’ll see.  Anyway I parked in the usually turning circle and walked down into the village.  As I have done this walk several times I decided to do it in reverse this time.  So I walked down the main street turning left up a steep road.  Which I quickly discovered was the wrong road.  Good start.  Then I remembered the turning I wanted was almost opposite a small mill dam.  Off I went again. 

The path was straightforward up through several fields to eventually bob out on the small road to Raygill Fisheries.  From here I turned right and onto the road out of Lothersdale uphill turning off onto a turning on the right over a small bridge to enter another set of fields.  So the long pull up to the moor tops continued. 

It was a steep trek up and up eventually going through a small plantation to arrive on the moor top.  Here I could see the trig point up ahead.  I followed a rough cart track up to the point.  The views were stunning – a lot better than I thought they were going to be, so glad I’d made the effort to walk up here today. 

Now it was a long slow gentle walk along the moor edge gradually dropping down through fields back into the village. 

I walked it a lot quicker than I thought I would too. About 4.5 miles of bracing Yorkshire air.  Never get fed up of doing this walk.  I’ll almost certainly do it again next year.