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Whernside at Easter

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Decided I would kick off this years hikes with a walk up Whernside in Yorkshire.  Going anywhere on Easter Sunday can be a pain and it took ages to drive over to the starting point at Ribble Viaduct.  When I arrived there were hundreds already there and parked cars lined the road for almost a mile past the Station Inn.  Thankfully the authorities have put in additional parking areas so while I had to go quite a distance from the start, I did get parked.  I took a lot of photos as I went along but unfortunately the weather was very overcast so they are a bit dark.  The car temp indicator registered 5.5 ° C when I was leaving but that fell to 3 degrees by the time I arrived back.  the wind was light and conditions for the walk were dry although there was rain in the preceding days so some spots were a bit muddy.  Whernside is the tallest of the Yorkshire three peaks at 730m and the expected time for the route up the left side, across the ridge and down the rights side and back to Ribble
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First time up Pendle Hill

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Ever since arriving in the Pendle Area of Lancashire almost seven or eight years ago I have been looking at Pendle Hill and thinking I really must take a walk up there one day. Well a few days ago (late August 2017) I decided to give it a go. The weather was overcast and threatened rain for most of the trip and wind was strong from the west.     I looked at a number of possible routes up the hill and decided on one that started out from the village of Barley (SD 8213 4054) but on arrival I found that the village was blocked up with parked cars and Barley Lane to the north is very narrow for a kilometre or so to the north.  I eventually found a safe place to leave the car just opposite the entrance to Windy Harbour (SD81640 41183).     I took the footpath into the field on to the Pendle Hill side of the road and followed the track towards Gannel House. About half way to the house you need to cross a dry stone wall but there is a style about 30 meters from the western corne
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