Day 8 Hawes to Keld

 The obligatory selfie from the start of the day in Hawes

Today was a slightly shorter, than normal, 14 miles but there was a lot of ascent  and the warm weather in the afternoon made it quite hard. The limestone of the Dales has now disappeared for a short while and the peat landscape we encountered at the start of the walk is back first we have a pleasant stroll through Wensleydale out of Hawes across meadows and by the river,  a delight

Soon we got to the green dragon Inn at Hardraw which is the pub used in the series  All creatures great and small

behind the green dragon is hardraw force waterfall which we discussed making the detour to but so little rain lately we decided against this excursion. We now had the inevitable ascent of great Shunner Fell. It stands at 2349 feet and is Yorkshire’s third highest mountain This was the highest point.we’ve reached so far on our walk there was nothing technical about it we just needed strong calf muscles to  carry us along the 4 1/2 mile up hill track to the summit.

There are 360 degrees views from the top but lunch is more important 😜

From here It’s a long gentle descent with fabulous views 

It’s obvious why this is called Black Hill

And it just gets better 

We press on towards Swale and into Thwaite unfortunately the tea rooms were closed ,

we  have a good climb from the village up the steep slopes of Kittson Hill. Hey, yeah, we can see the village of Muker in a distance.

It’s beautiful everywhere you look

We have to take a narrow rocky track with incredible views into winner Gill

 

and onto East Stonesdale from here we have to continue to go into Keld. I have to stop occasionally to take in the views

A day of spectacular views. 

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Todays route