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What a fantastic video. Looking to do three separate walks in The Lake District in August 2024. This was on my wishlist beforehand but now I really cannot wait to do this one. Beautiful scenery and easy to follow. Thank you! Am I right in thinking the Cathedral Caves are near to Slater's Bridge?
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully this current sunny weather reappears in August! Yes, cathedral caves are very near to Slater Bridge - I was going to include them on this walk, but there were a couple of school parties there when I passed and I try not to get children on the videos. About 2-300 metres before you reach slater’s bridge, the caves are on your left and well worth a visit. If u look on an OS map, not often named but just says quarries(disused).
We did this walk yesterday, but decided on the gravel path up and steps down. Weather was a bit muggy and wet but a great walk! We didnt get the views as the mist was quite thick at the top. Need to do this again.
Unfortunately that seems to be the weather we’ve been getting all year, but hopefully we might get some summer soon! It is worth doing again to get the views…
We have just completed our hike up Pen y Ghent. Your video & description were really useful. We were lucky to be able to walk it in sunny mostly dry conditions! Just like to add, after our walk and returning to the Lion pub carpark a group of lovely ladies were serving tea and cake in St Oswalds church 2.30 - 4.30.
Glad you found the video useful and actually got one of the rare sunny days…there’s not been many of those of late! I’ve not been when they’ve been doing tea and cakes, but if I can find out whether it’s a regular thing I can add it to the walk on the website…
Thank you 🙏🏼 this is one of the best walking videos I’ve seen. Love the summary first then all the detail and points to check you are on right paths. The end food/drink places also so useful. We are coming to grange soon and will definitely do this walk after watching your super helpful video 👌🏼🙌🏼
I just wanted to post an update to say I completed this at the weekend! 11 hours 8 minutes. I’m so grateful for your video as I was able to break the route down in my head, and it made it much easier to mentally manage!
Congratulations on completing the walk - hopefully the weather was ok for once! I’m glad you found the video useful - breaking walks down into distinct sections is also always good for planning…it is a long one!
I’m glad you found it useful - and could sit through it all! Hope the 3 peaks walk went well last weekend and you got some decent weather in which to do it…
I can’t think of any way this video could have been better. The judicious use of fast-forward was perfect for my taste, and the commentary was good. It elevates my spirits to know the English, well some of them, still have such beauty and freedom to Roam in it. And on such elegant, naturalistic, well-looked-after paths and gates.
Thanks for the comments and glad you enjoyed the video 👍 We do still have quite a lot of places where we can freely roam and all the national parks do a great job of looking after the footpaths…and councils too (well…sometimes!)
Thanks for this, very useful as I plan on visiting this Friday. What would you suggest for a person in recovery so not so fit at the moment, the steps or gravel path route? Thanks
Glad you found the video useful. The steps are quite a bit steeper than the gravel path…but you can stop and have a rest on both routes to enjoy the views! I find the view better going up the steps, so generally do it that way round as my knees much prefer the gravel down instead of the steps down, but you could do gravel both ways, which TBH is probably the easier route.
Hi I’m going tomorrow. Could you plz tell me is gatesgarth car park beside court hotel ? Or where to find it post code for the car park ?? Many thanks in advance .
Hi, sorry for the late reply. There is a pay and display car park next to the start by the Buttermere Court hotel - the postcode for that one is CA13 9UZ. That is not the Gatesgarth one though. The Gatesgarth car park is just over half way round the walk at the far end of the lake. The postcode for that one is CA13 9XA. Hope that helps...
Amazing highly detailed video, I downloaded this and used it across the route as there was no reception on the phone, started at 5pm and walked with my wife and 4 children it took us about 5 hours but we managed to do the whole walk exactly as described, found the car park closed at 10pm, paid and left as we were the last ones. A masterpiece video !!! Well done !
Thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍Hopefully you got your car out ok - I didn't realise it closed at 10. I'll add something to the walk text on the website to let people know. It looked a good day for the walk yesterday - dry for once!
@@walks4allthe car park closes at 9pm however we got out ok, had to open the gates and close them behind us as we left, and yes it was a dry day an excellent walk enjoyed by the family, thank you once again !!! Barley Car Park Opening Times: October - March 8am - 6pm April - September 8am - 9pm No overnight parking or camping
It has a slot on the front that I’ve always presumed was for donations, so I guess it would take coins. I’ve only ever used their online donations page…
It was last July pre school holidays. Very early start. I can’t remember which day but it was midweek. There is a section on the ydnp website for anyone organising an event to register their event. Not everyone does, but I just avoided the days when I could see lots of people were planning to walk it. The penyghent section I did again the day after so I had the sun behind me…
Thanks - I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂 I’m completely the opposite, I’m well into double figures now on completions, but I’ve never done it the other way around…
Hi, great quality video thanks. We are planning this walk in August, about how long does this route take as in hours ? just a ball park figure please. visiting from Canada, thanks
You will probably be down at the lower end then timewise…not sure on your itinerary whilst you are over here, but if you have a car and are planning more walking, there are some lovely walks in the Yorkshire Dales about 30 mins drive away (I’ve a few videos on some of them) or in the Lake District, about an hour further north…
Invaluable video/directions for this walk. I was able to relax and enjoy knowing I was confident about where we were going. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks ever so much.
Absolutely the most informative and enjoyable walk I have ever viewed. 50 years+ since I completed this walk and pleased to the improvements made to assist walkers. i.e, pavers, boardwalk, etc. I now live in Australia and getting on in years and was thrilled to 'take this walk with you', brought back so many memories. Thank you again. Now subscribed, I look forward to viewing your previous walks and new postings. 🏁🚸
Thank you 🙂 I’m glad the memories came flooding back - the walk had been much improved since I did my first one, but you’ll have noticed more than me if it is 50 years + since you last did it. I filmed in almost Australian weather - one of the few days we had the sun!! Hopefully, you’ll enjoy some of the other videos…
TBH I’m not sure. Legally maybe not, but on very early morning walks I have seen the odd tent there that was packing up. Where I have seen more tents very early morning is on top of the cove the far side of the pavement and further up near Malham tarn. I’ve also seen people on the flat approach to Gordale Scar. There is an official campsite as you leave Malham towards the cove. Sorry not much help here but the only wild camping I really do is on the Lakeland Fells.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed 👍 For the initial walk I set off about 6.30am finishing about 3.30pm. This was midweek which is why most of it is quiet. I realised that night some sections weren’t great as I took directly into the sun, so I went back the next day and did Pen-Y-Ghent and a few other bits again, this time setting off in the afternoon, which is why the start looks busier. I’m prob a little faster than average walking hills, but if I push on, it generally takes me about 8 hours. Most reasonably fit people who have done a reasonable amount of training take between 8-11 hours to do it. I hope that helps in your planning if you are doing it…
Thanks 👍 The walk turns just past skelwith force at skelwith bridge. So it does reach Chester’s by the river and skelwith bridge hotel. The route followed is shown here: www.walks4all.com/walks/skelwith-force-waterfall-colwith-force-waterfall-and-slater-bridge-walk-from-elterwater/
Sorry, missed your second reply. Rather than the steps there is a wide gravel path that heads up diagonally left from the bottom of the steps - the one that I come back down. That should be much easier to walk on and has far fewer trip risks...and can be used then for both the up and down routes.
Glad you liked the format...and that it brought back memories fo the race...not sure whether they'd be good or bad ones by the time you reached pen-y-ghent! I read the reports on this year's race, walking it is a great achivement, but doing it in those sort of times that you do it in is phenomenal.
Thanks for your detailed video review. I am planning with my family. I cant understand about what should i enter in google maps and is there any parking near by?
If you click on this link: maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=54.5409475948385,+-3.277523463845997 or copy and paste it into your browser, it should open google maps with a red icon at the start of the walk, The red icon is also the entrace to the car park next to the buttermere court hotel. Once on google maps, you should be able to click directions, enter your own postcode and it will give you directions to the parking and the start of the walk. That is quite a large car park, but if full there is additional parking a couple of hundred metres up the road on the way into buttermere. There is more detail about the walk, a map of the walk on the buttermere walk page on our website: www.walks4all.com/walks/buttermere-lake-walk-from-buttermere. On that webpage are links to the parking and the start of the walk. I hope that helps...
Glad you enjoyed - can’t 100% remember but pretty sure it was cash and cardless. If you are there early enough or on quieter days midweek, some free roadside parking as you head into Malham just before the car park on the left.
I assume not too many changes? Hopefully brought back some good memories! Slight change of route and some better paths now to avoid the bogs since my first one.
Thanks and glad you enjoyed 👍 If it is May when you get there, that’s generally a great time as all the bluebells are out in the woods before Janet’s Foss. It can get quite busy parking wise at weekends and bank holidays…
Yes - the stream side of the road generally has cars parked on it and it is free road side parking. It can get quite busy, quite early at weekends/bank holidays and in the summer.
Watching this on waking has set me up for the day. It is wonderful to feel as if I am back there again after over seventy years and to see it all in such unspoiled condition. It's impossible to choose favourite bits, but the sky, trees, bird sounds and greenness linger in my head. Glad you confirmed it was Pendle Hill I spotted. Great stuff! Thank you so much.
I'm glad you enjoyed it and it managed to give you an outside feel to the start of your day. The scenery is still all unspoilt there and hopefully it will be for many more years to come. Early May is my favourite time there, when the leaves are back on the trees, there are far more birds around, bluebells and the smell of wild garlic lingers through the woods.
Fantastic video, we're looking to do this when the weather picks up in the next few weeks, we did the Edale skyline a few months back would you say this is similar in terms of difficulty?
Thanks - glad you enjoyed the video. It is quite a few years since I did the Edale skyline and I think there are a couple of variations of it. I think the one I did was approx 20 miles and about 1100m of climbing. So, on distance and climb alone the 3 Peaks is a little harder with an extra 4 miles and approx 400m more climbing. That said the 3 Peaks paths are much improved now over what they used to be, so the walk itself is mainly all on good ground and you get a good 'rest' between hills. The main difference will probably be that the edale skyline is more 'undulating', whereas the 3 Peaks climbing is really all crammed into 3 shortish sections going up each one. Most people find the steep climb up Ingleborough towards the end of the 3 Peaks tiring as a long way into the walk. Paths and signage are easy to follow on the 3 Peaks, the only 2 slight areas where more navigation could be requiured if all in low cloud, are a short section towards the top of penyghent and on the top of Ingleborough. The top of Ingleborough is where most people who 'get lost' go wrong in bad visibility. If I'm not videoing, the 3 Peaks is generally about 8 hours for me, I think the Edale skyline was just under 7 hours, so I'd maybe allow an extra 1.5 hours on top of your skyline time, but if you managed that ok, you should be fine doing the 3 Peaks. Becasue of the length of the walk and different fitness levels of the people doing it, there is quite a large spread in times taken to walk it, but most people do it in 8.5-11.5 hours.
@@walks4all thanks for the reply, I’m really looking forward to getting up there and giving it a go, I just wish we get the weather as good as it is in your video……cheers
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it👍 It is always good to get some positive feedback to know people enjoy what you are making...makes it all the more worthwhile!
Glad you are enjoying them and finding them useful 👍 I do try to film them in the sun so clear and good visibility…downside is with how much it has rained last 5 months, there isn’t many days I can film!
