Karst Landscape

Ed asked me what I'd like to see in Dales today and I had no shortage of suggestions but hadn't expected him to work out a route that just about included all my ideas!! So we headed to the very picturesque village of West Burton, then up Waldendale, a new route for him too, lots of barns and remote farmsteads. Into the more wooded Bishopsdale and up and over the fell into Langstrothdale and the hamlets of Yockenthaite and Oughtershaw! One can certainly tell that the Vikings were here! Then down the long descent from Fleet Moss to Hawes and coffee.
The forecast was for sunshine in the afternoon so we wanted to get a good walk on the limestone, we left the car in Chapel le Dale and headed up a wooded track and out onto Scales Moor, ahead was the ridge leading to Whernside and to the East was snowy Ingleborough. The karst landscape was strewn with erratics of various shapes and sizes, all the more dramatic with the backdrop of Ingleborough which was once an Iron Age hill fort used in the summer months! A few extra images today of the dramaticTwisleton scar, beautiful walls which seemed to serve no purpose and trees that have managed to find a nook or cranny out of the reach of grazing sheep!