Tag Archives: Whernside

#274 – Diary of a project – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge guidebook (Part 5)

Posted on 08/06/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(For the best viewing experience, left click the images and maps to zoom in, then use your browser return arrow to go back)   23 March 2010 – Route 6, Ingleborough from Chapel le Dale to Horton, solo – The … Continue reading →

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#273 – Diary of a project – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge guidebook (Part 4)

Posted on 25/05/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(Left click images to zoom in, use browser return arrow to go back)  In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out with 129 men and two ships to find a sea link between the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.    The fabled … Continue reading →

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#272 – Diary of a project – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge guidebook (Part 3)

Posted on 11/05/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(Left click images to zoom in, use browser return arrow to go back) My first trip out recording the Y3P Challenge walk (see post #271) had been a bit, err …. damp!   Gore-Tex jacket and salopettes were dried within a … Continue reading →

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#271 – Diary of a project (Part 2) – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge guidebook

Posted on 27/04/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(Left click images to zoom in, use browser return arrow to go back) There’s a saying in the military, known as the 7 P’s – “Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P*ss Poor Performance”. I soon realised that if I was … Continue reading →

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#270 – Diary of a project (Part 1) – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge guidebook

Posted on 13/04/2020 by Paul Shorrock

(Left click images to zoom in, use browser return arrow to go back) Back in 2009, I was looking for a new project.  A couple of years earlier I had started writing hiking routes for WalkingWorld and had a great … Continue reading →

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#177 – Y3P – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge

Posted on 15/06/2015 by Paul Shorrock

In July 1887, two teachers from Giggleswick School near Settle decided to have a stroll over Ingleborough (724 metres/2375ft). When they got there, Whernside (728 metres/2388ft) must have looked inviting in the distance, so they carried on. At Whernside they … Continue reading →

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#133 – Rising to the challenge – The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge walk

Posted on 17/06/2013 by Paul Shorrock

 As challenge walks go, the circuit of the Yorkshire Three Peaks is challenging!  As the name suggests there are three peaks on the route – Pen y Ghent (691 metres), Whernside (728 metres) and Ingleborough 723 metres).  Not big hills … Continue reading →

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#27 – At last! The real Whernside!! – (Whernside and Ingleborough – two out of the Yorkshire Three Peaks)

Posted on 22/05/2011 by Paul Shorrock

The Yorkshire Three Peaks (Y3P) are like old friends.  I’ve known them for years, since I started hill walking, in fact.  Like old friends, sometimes a few years will go by without any contact, then you meet up again and … Continue reading →

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#15 – “…feeling a bit peaky..”

Posted on 28/02/2011 by Paul Shorrock

The peaks in this case being three in number.  Last weeks post on Pen y Ghent brought back memories of the previous year, when I spent four months researching for a guidebook on the Three Peaks Challenge – That’s the … Continue reading →

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