Those who have followed my random mutterings for any length of time will know that in addition to venting my spleen at the various strange, frustrating and vexing situations and problems I have also chronicled my various hiking outings on this blog.
My challenge for the past few years has been to tackle the three Yorkshire Peaks, at least once each year, either singly or as the full 26 mile challenge. Now, however, despite getting older the challenge is getting easier, so new boundaries have to be found and pushed, stretched and beaten into submission.
So after a little research I have discovered there are a whole other bunch of hills/mountains/tall pointy/tall blunt/tall flat bits of Yorkshire that are over 2000 feet high. Forty of them in fact. Plus one which is a shade under 2000 feet but looks interesting anyway.
So my new challenge and belated New Years Resolution is to hike/climb/crawl up them all before the end of the year. Now of course New Years resolutions are, rather like noses, there to be broken, and challenges are there to fail, so I fully expect to have a few left at the end of the year, but it will be fun trying to achieve this goal, if of course like me, you find walking in the cold and wet, getting lost and falling in bogs to be fun.
This plan, thought up whilst entirely sober I might add, has caught my imagination such that i have even thought about finding another 3 hills, to make up the grand total of 44, one for each year of my life. Sca Fell Pike will have to be one of these honorary Yorkshire Hills, but I am short of two more. I'm sure I'll think of something between now and the year end/end of challenge, which ever comes first.
For now here is the list of the hills, in order of height, not necessarily in the order in which I'll complete them.
Name Location Height Grid Ref
Little Whernside Coverdale 1981 SE027776
Birks Fell Wharfedale 2014 SD918764
Drumaldrace (Wether Fell) Sleddale 2014 SD873868
Bush Howe Howgill Fells 2044 SD659980
Randygill Top Howgill Fells 2047 NY687000
Darnbrook Fell Littondale 2047 SD884728
Gragareth Kingsdale 2057 SD687793
Green Hill Dentdale 2060 SD701820
Yarlside Howgill Fells 2096 SD685984
Fell Head Howgill Fells 2100 SD647981
Yockenthwaite Moor Langstrothdale 2110 SD908810
Simon Fell Chapel-le-Dale 2133 SD754751
Fountains Fell South Top Silverdale 2172 SD868707
Nine Standards Rigg Hartley Fell 2172 NY824063
Great Dummacks Howgill Fells 2175 SD679963
Sails (Little Fell) Buttertubs Pass 2189 SD808971
Dodd Fell Hill Cam High Road 2192 SD841845
Water Crag East Stonesdale 2192 NY928046
Fountains Fell Silverdale 2192 SD864715
Bram Rigg Top Howgill Fells 2205 SD668965
Rogans Seat East Stonesdale 2205 NY919031
Great Knoutberry Hill Widdale 2205 SD788871
Calders Howgill Fells 2211 SD671960
Lovely Seat Buttertubs Pass 2215 SD878951
Knoutberry Haw Garsdale 2218 SD731919
The Calf Howgill Fells 2218 SD667970
Tarn Rigg Hill (Baugh Fell) Garsdale 2224 SD741916
Plover hill Halton Gill 2231 SD848752
Swarth Fell Mallerstang 2234 SD754967
Crag Hill Dentdale 2237 SD692833
Great Coum Dentdale 2254 SD696835
Hugh Seat Mallerstang 2260 SD808991
Pen-Y-Ghent Ribblesdale 2277 SD838733
Gregory Chapel Mallerstang 2280 NY802002
Buckden Pike Upper Wharfedale 2303 SD960787
Great Whernside Upper Wharfedale 2310 SE002739
Wild Boar Fell Mallerstang 2323 SD757988
High Seat Mallerstang 2326 NY801012
Great Shunner Fell Thwaite 2349 SD848972
Ingleborough Chapel-le-Dale 2372 SD740745
Whernside Ribblesdale 2415 SD738814
That ought to keep me busy.
The weekend of 17th-19th February is already put aside for Ingleborough and either Whernside or Pen-Y-Ghent as I am in the area with the kids that weekend for half term. I'd happily have a go at all three, but at 9 and 12 the youngsters probably aren't quite up to it yet.
Watch this space for irregular updates, and the no doubt humorous adventures that will befall me.
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