The Dales

 

 



welcome to limestone country

 

 

limestone country is typified by
Malham cove
over 100 meters high and on the Pennine way LDP (long distance footpath)

 

sheep in Malham village

 

very close to Malham cove is Goredale Scar with it's short climbing pitch at the side of the waterfall

 

 

looking down Gapping Gill main chamber, the largest chamber, and largest pitch in a cave in Great Britain

 

 

dw-6.jpg (26964 bytes) the Strid
dw-5.jpg (19937 bytes) the meeting of
the Dales Way
& the Pennine Way

(the Pennine Way 270 miles
Edale to Kirk Yetholme
and was the first long distance path
that I walked back in 1980)
DW-1.jpg (13302 bytes) for a short while the Dales Way path combines with
the Pennine Way
towards the viaduct
dw-2.jpg (23040 bytes) Gayle Beck bridge

 

 

both the 

Dales Way
&
the Pennine Way

Long Distance Footpaths
(LDP's)

pass through the Dales

 

 

English
mountain index

Kinder Scout

Wastwater from the Scafell range