A Walkers Tale

The prior day I had been walking along the Dales Way from  Cowgill to Burneside  - and today I would be continuing to walk along the Dales Way to Bowness-on-Windermere. Since this would be a fairly short walk, my plan was then to cross over Windermere - and head up the western side of the lake to Ambleside.

The Dales Way is a path I stumbled upon while doing walks near Ribblehead - and I have previous used a small part of it on a walk from Dent to Horton-in-Ribblesdale . After finishing that walk I was inspired to look up this trail in more detail and found that it not only tracks through the southern end of the Yorkshire Dales - but also cuts across to the Lake District.

Earlier in the year I was walking a section of the Pennine Way  between  Gargrave to Horton-in-Ribblesdale  that took me into Ribblesdale for the first time. Having really enjoyed that walk, today I am back in the area, to do a bit of a composite walk, starting from Dent train station. From here I will walk the Dales Way to the edge of Dent village, and then swap to the Dales High Way  round to Ribblehead Viaduct.