Whernside at Easter
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