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A winter/spring walk along the Pennine Way in the run-up to Easter 2008.

I walked the PW in September 2004, and last March I walked most of it again. In 2004 it took me 19 days, but this time I only had a fortnight, so I had to walk faster. I did:

Day 1: Edale to Crowden
Day 2: Crowden to The White House, near Blackstone Edge Reservoir
Day 3: The White House to Hebden Bridge
Day 4: Hebden Bridge to Lothersdale
Day 5: Lothersdale to Malham
Day 6: Malham to Horton-in-Ribblesdale
Day 7: Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Hawes
Day 8: Hawes to Keld
Day 9: Keld to Middleton-in-Teesdale
Day 10: Middleton-in-Teesdale to Dufton
Day 11: Dufton to Alston
Day 12: Alston to Knarsdale (lunchtime)

...and then I became terminally fed up and went home :) I regret not finishing now, but at the time it was great! Almost a week spent slobbing in front of the computer before I had to go back to work.

I made a podcast with Bob Cartwright of backpackinglight.co.uk about my first trip along the Pennine Way, and if you'd like to hear it then you can download the MP3 here or go over to backpackinglight.co.uk, scroll down to the bottom of the page and listen to a streaming version here.
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Peewiglet > Grouse.

(6th March 2008)
Peewiglet > Pennine Way -- March 2008 photo
Peewiglet > I got comprehensively lost after this. I was right on the path, but when I stopped to check my position I misread the grid reference on the map (eyes getting old...), thought I'd gone wrong and re-traced my steps right back up the hill. I added at least 90 minutes to the day, trying to reconcile where I then found myself with what the map appeared to say, and had to descend to Crowden in the dark over Clough Edge, where there isn't a path, but there are several barbed wire fences that I had to get over.

I had an unsettling experience going down to Torside Reservoir. It was dark, and I hadn't switched my torch on (as is usual for me in the dark), and as I walked I heard a noise ahead of me that sounded like somebody shovelling gravel. It went on for some time--maybe 20 minutes, both on the approach and as I walked away from it--and I was sure that I was going to come across a couple of blokes doing some sort of maintenance work, but there turned out to be nobody there. The noise continued, though. I wracked my brain to try to work out what might have been causing it--water dropping onto stones, perhaps?--but nothing seemed to explain it. I can hear it now, as I type, and I still have no explanation for it. I tried to find out afterwards what it might have been, but no joy. Any ideas? Please let me know :)

(6th March 2008)
Peewiglet > Camping at Crowden with my Mountain Equipment Dragonfly. 

It turned out that the campsite was closed for the winter--eep!--and so I had to climb over the locked gate and park in a corner of the field, hoping that nobody would evict me during the night.

(6th March 2008)
Peewiglet > Pennine Way -- March 2008 photo
Peewiglet > Pennine Way -- March 2008 photo
Peewiglet > Pennine Way -- March 2008 photo
Peewiglet > Pennine Way -- March 2008 photo
Pennine Way -- March 2008 photo
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