We arrived at main car park at 8am only to find it doesn't open until 9am doh. So we decided to park on side of road and do an earthcache first and then reposition car onto car park.
SOTL - Thorpe Cloud by PopUpPirate
We walked along the river and then around the back of the hill following the path up to the top. We saw a couple of groups of ramblers way below us as we were almost at the top and then as we reached summit we were almost blown over by the wind hehe.
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| On our way |
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| A shot from a few feet up the steep side. |
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| Some crazy woman on the stones |
Despite the wind it was great to be up here and look down at the lovely green scenery. There were a few questions to answer and a couple of pics to take and then we decided to take a much more direct route to the car.
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| It's a long way to roll down! |
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| Me with knoll behind me. |
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| Lovely blue skies as we approach car. |
Back down on low ground and £2.50 later we were parked up ready to walk down the river to Milldale and back down the other side.
The walk is spectacular and as I said earlier it is one we have wanted to do for a while.
We grabbed the first trad of the day before the stepping stones, unfortunately lid was cracked and log was not very signable.
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| Our first of a handful of trads today. |
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| Down by the riverside |
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| A bit of a walk to next cache |
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| Jules in awe of what we can see. |
It was quite a walk to the next cache but it was great as we had more time to take in the beauty of the area. There were some lovely rock faces down the sides of the river and we even passed a few climbers who were certainly making the most of the weather.
Further along we chatted to a couple of walkers for a couple of minutes and whilst chatting I spotted a lovely rock archway....perfect for a photo with tripod.
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| Natural beauty at its best. |
We did another couple of earthcaches next, the first one being Lionshead rock mimetolith by pete37038 which was a rock which looked like the picture of a lions head, but we thought we saw lions head in a different rock haha.
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| Me near Lionshead earthcache |
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| A nice pointed rock. |
The rocks around here are fantastic though and next on the journey was SOTL - Dove Holes by PopUpPirate .
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| The dove holes |
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| Me in front of Dove Holes. |
The Dove Holes are impressive caves which are created by water wearing out the soft limestone cliffs.
There were a fair few people at the Dove Holes when we arrived so we only took a couple of quick pics and answered questions the best we could.
We then carried on along the river until we arrived at the lovely little village of Milldale.
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| Milldale |
Before we moved on we had to put our waterproofs on as it had started to rain and the sky looked full of it, but within a few minutes it had all blown over and the blue skies were back.
We headed up the road and connected with the footpath which was to take us to our next cache and then we had to somehow find our way to the next one but there was no logical way without back tracking.
We decided to just follow the arrow and what a mistake that was.... but being the adventurous pair that we are, we eventually got down to the path we needed and then DNF'ed the next cache doh.
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| It levelled out a bit |
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| YAY more blue skies |
The walking was a tad more difficult this side of the river but added a great deal of fun to the walk.
We could see the Dove Holes again and picked up a couple more caches as we approached the bridge to cross back over the river.
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| The Dove holes with someone climbing across the ceiling. |
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| We had fun here getting through |
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| Almost back |
There was just one more cache before we arrived back at the car for a cup of coffee and to see where we needed to go next...
Robbers' Safe House by chramm
Whilst we were down Wales a week ago Jules picked up a TB that wanted to go back to this cache, so of course we obliged and had a great day out in Dovedale too.
We did a couple of Baggiewhite caches on journey home to round off another perfect day.
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