{"id":786,"date":"2016-10-22T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=786"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:22:30","slug":"great-knoutberry-and-blea-moor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Great Knoutberry and Blea Moor"},"content":{"rendered":"

16\/08\/16<\/h1>\n

Another walk from Dent to Ribblehead<\/a>, this time on the eastern side of the train line.<\/p>\n

\"Dentdale\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Following the road up from Dent station I joined the Pennine Bridleway as it follows the contours of Great Knoutberry. \u00a0Leaving the track I followed a fence up towards the trig point, from which all three peaks can be seen – visibility was good if a little hazy. \u00a0Curlew were disturbed on the way up, although I don’t think it was only me as there was a large bird hovering above. \u00a0As well as the trig point at the top there is a also a nice wind shelter; a section of wall with stones protruding as benches on either side.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a> \"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Navigation was so easy as to verge on boring but I still almost followed the wrong fence down from the summit. \u00a0The correct fence is also the Cumbria\/Yorkshire border. \u00a0Eventually I met the track at Aysgarth Moss which was a cross roads of bridleways; the west-east track being an old drovers road between dales. \u00a0I took the north-south route around Wold Fell which is a restricted byway, although given the more stringent restrictions on the surrounding routes I’m not sure how you could make the most of it. \u00a0This is a fine track and I would like to revisit it on a mountain bike. \u00a0There were lots of wheatears which were curious but seemed to find rabbits’ burrows a useful shelter when I got too close.<\/p>\n

\"Bridleway\"<\/a> \"Bridleway\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The track meets a road for a few hundred metres before continuing around Blea Moor. \u00a0I stopped for lunch at the first gate and was visited by a curious weasel – it looked at me as if I was sitting in its way.\u00a0 After a couple of laps of what is presumably a well-trodden route, followed by discrete surveillance from a patch of reeds the weasel disappeared. \u00a0Very quick and difficult to photograph but a lovely moment.<\/p>\n

\"Weasel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Although following bridleways was easy it had become a little dull so I decided to change my plan and head up to the summit of Blea Moor. \u00a0This involved more fence-following and lots of bog-dodging. \u00a0A vehicle had been driven over here recently – probably to repair the fence judging by the old rusted sections and new posts and wire – which made tracks to follow. \u00a0At the most difficult section I thought I was going to have to use the fence as a bridge but instead found a reasonably clear crossing. \u00a0I saw a couple of traps and wondered if they were for the weasel…perhaps it had been threatening the grouse population. \u00a0I only saw a couple of grouse, maybe\u00a0after the 12th most of them have gone.<\/p>\n

\"Trap<\/a> \"Trig<\/a><\/p>\n

A fence junction was near the trig point of Blea Moor – there are air shafts<\/a> near but out of sight, over the railway tunnel. \u00a0The best way down seemed to be to follow yet another fence – one now fully in Yorkshire. \u00a0A bit of bog-dodging was required, and eventually I met the path which follows the railway. \u00a0This was the first time I had seen other walkers since I left Dent station.<\/p>\n

\"Trig<\/a>\u00a0\"Towards<\/a> \"Ribblehead<\/a><\/p>\n

I saw the 3.42 pm train come and go, so was happy that I had a couple of hours before the next one to spend in the Station Inn. \u00a0A better back garden is hard to imagine.<\/p>\n

\"Ribblehead<\/a>\u00a0\"map<\/a><\/p>\n

9.7 miles, 1,657 ft climbed<\/em>
\n Great Knoutberry Hill, 672 m; Marilyn, Hump, Hewitt, Nuttall,<\/em>
\n Bleh Moor, 535 m; Hump, Dewey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16\/08\/16 Another walk from Dent to Ribblehead, this time on the eastern side of the train line. Following the road up from Dent station I joined the Pennine Bridleway as it follows the contours of Great Knoutberry. \u00a0Leaving the track I followed a fence up towards the trig point, from which all three peaks can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,20,17,9,15,2,3,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dewey","category-hewitt","category-hump","category-linear-walks","category-marilyn","category-nuttall","category-sloeadventures","category-walking","category-walks-from-train-stations","category-yorkshire-dales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}