Howgills 5th April - The Route

The (my) plan is to park up near the Cross Keys Temperance (!) Hotel on the A683 SD698969.

Then it's west across the River Rawthey and head NNW for Yarlside SD686985.

Then north, contouring Kensgriff for Randygill Top NY687001.

Then we have to lose some height (twice), heading west , first down into Bowderdale, and over the col north of Hazelgill Knot and then down to Langdale Beck, where we turn south, upstream along the western branch to regain height for Breaks Head SD652985.

That gets most of the climbing done, and now we just cruise along, picking up the remaining eight 2,000 ft tops:- Fell Head SD649982 - Fell Head End SD646981 - Bush Howe SD659981 - White Fell Head SD661974 - The Calf SD667971 - Bram Rigg Top SD668965 - Calders SD971961and finally Great Dummacks SD677963 before descending back to our starting point, keeping south east of Cautley Crag.

The route is about 11 miles and YJ, tBIL and I completed it in July 2002 in 2 hours 47 minutes - expect quite a lot longer this April!