Ling Gill

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I'm outside the Pen-y-ghent Cafe in Horton in Ribblesdale And I'm about to spend another day on the Pennine Way It's really really cold but I've got my full waterproofs on I've got my full winter gear so lets head on out and start getting warm I'm climbing on this track out of Ribblesdale now It's been kind of raining the last few days and a little bit of snow so there's little puddles and mud all over this track See up in the hills it's just a bit of fog So I'm not seeing a great deal of stuff now But this is just nice Yorkshire Dales National Park scenery with these stone walls And then over there will be Ribblesdale, one of the dales from which Yorkshire Dales National Park gets its name A dale is just a... just valley if anyone is wondering, usually u-shaped, glaciated valleys This is quite a well graded bridleway but walking on these rocks, I keep slipping and twisting my ankle People say that this section between Horton in Ribblesdale and Hawes is probably one of the easiest sections of the Pennine Way even though it goes up into the hills mainly because it's walking along this track for such a long way and this track is such an easy path to follow and it's so easy on your feet You could pretty much jog along the entire route If only the weather was a little bit better so I could see the Ribblehead Viaduct which is a train track on the Settle to Carlisle railroad It's fairly impressive to see it out by itself in the moors just before it goes through a tunnel Walking past some sheep but I've got to be careful not to startle them too much because most of these will be pregnant awaiting lambing season in a few weeks I'll go slow and let them move out of the way of us This is Ling Gill, it's a National Nature Reserve You see it's a very deep kind of scar with Ling Gill running through the bottom Here you can see Ling Gill which is a limestone gorge and you can see all the trees growing on the bank because it's simply too steep for sheep to graze on, so this is sort of what the landscape would look like if there wasn't so much grazing around here This path I'm following is actually the course of an old Roman road, so for thousands of years people have been using this Just imagine all the different people who have crossed it over the years And now there's me in winter feeling very very cold but eager to get down to Wensleydale and to Hawes So I think I'm going to put the camera away until then Hey, looks like I'm in a bit of a whiteout here The things I do to make videos for you guys Finally making my way down to Wensleydale, it's going to be good to get out of the snow and into a nice warm pub I'm just having an explore of Hawes, now Hawes is a little market town in Wensleydale Now Wensleydale is probably most famous for its cheeses The Wensleydale cheese produced here for centuries and centuries Now the reason Wensleydale's cheese is famous, well here in England, is most likely because of the Wallace and Grommit animated films Now Wallace is an inventor who has a passion for cheeses, and Wensleydale in particular And when one of the shows came on the air sales of Wensleydale jumped by I think it was 23% or something like that, so that just shows you the power of marketing That's enough of me in Hawes, I've taken off my muddy zip offs and I'm going to head to Hardraw now Which is where I'm going to be staying the night It's not too far away from here, it's just up there in the valley so the day is almost done After 6 hours I've finally got to my destination here Hardraw and the Green Dragon Inn where I've booked myself in for the night It's a pub as well as a bed and breakfast, it's got a holiday cottage as well, so we'll see what this is like It looks really nice it's quite an old looking pub and it's next to a church and by a river And it's actually just a very small little hamlet But it's nice to be out of the cold it's nice to be able have a warm meal in a few minutes and I think I might have a little nap as soon as I get my room Well I've just had a gammon steak and chips and egg at the Green Dragon here in Hardraw and it was just what I needed After a 15 mile hike through all that snow and then just to get to the pub, get my room, have a sleep for an hour and then just go to the bar and have a drink and have a meal Aww, it felt so good I'm probably going to have a bath now and then I might just go straight to sleep because I'm pretty tired Well I was up at half five this morning to come for the long drive here, so yeah It's actually a really nice pleasant place to stay The pub had quite a few local people in all talking with the landlord and he came over and brought me extra vegetables and things like that So yeah it was a really friendly place and I recommend it