Gus Northfield
Our Dales High Way - August 2024
August 2024 we set out to walk the Dales High Way over a week long period. We had never done a long distance walk together before.
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August 2024 we set out to walk the Dales High Way over a week long period. We had never done a long distance walk together before.
I am a lover of nature and the beauty of our countryside.
I can truly say hand on heart that the Dales High Way was an absolute corker.
In May 2023 Carol and Alan walked across the glorious high country of the Yorkshire Dales over nine days, staying in BnBs. This is a video of that hike.
Video blog of wintery walk along A Dales High Way - 90 miles in the glorious country of the Yorkshire Dales.
Jason Marchant walks A Dales High Way in 6 daily stages - video blog
Short video blog of a trek along A Dales High Way in a wintery February
90 miles over 5 days wild camping from Saltaire to Appleby with some COLD nights...
I wanted to show that multi-day adventures don’t have to stop once the cold season begins, so I challenged myself to walk the 90-mile (145 km) Dales High Way in winter.
I can't really think of any other trail that I have done that has been as visually impactive for it's entire length.
Short video of a happy, wet hike, north to south, camping along the way
In this video I backpack with my father along the Dales Highway.
A beautiful walk across the Yorkshire dales, from
Saltaire to Appleby-in-Westmorland, 90 miles in 7 days.
See Phil's pal Rich
"The Wanderer"'s version here.
The 3 peaks formed the main event, but the appetizer was the Malham area and the dessert the Howgill Fells. That’s a sumptuous 3 courses!
This was such an awesome walk which I made in the hottest weather imaginable, and not a drop of rain on the way!
Video photo montage of a spring Dales High Way hike
I will also be using some of the alternative routes which have either evolved since the walk was formulated or are bad weather options from the official guide book.
Whilst walking one day we found a flyer that referred to The Dales High Way, which sounded exactly what we were after.
I had plans – best laid and all that…
I have been tempted by the sirens' call of the recently completed (Yorkshire) Dales High Way.
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a most enjoyable 3 days running on The Dales Highway.
If you have half an hour to burn, take a look at this video diary that my wife and I knocked up...
I'm starting yet another long distance walk, which I will do in stages as I find time to walk it.
We basked like two seals in the warm sunshine and gentle breeze.
I have just finished nine days of walking about the Lake District and have selected the Dales High Way to finish off my "grand walkabout" of the lakes and dales.
So I decided that instead Friday 29th April was going to be Poly Styrene Day. OH BONDAGE - UP YOURS!
As one of our walks every year, me and my Grandad walked The Dales Highway and also raised money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Heart Unit.
Bye bye the Dales Highway – thanks for the memories, we’ll miss you.
And so it was that the two of us strode out of Ilkley train station this morning, after an early start, to walk a chunk of the Dales High Way.
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