Route: Dufton - Threlkeld Side - Great Rundale Tarn - Maize Beck - High Cup Nick - Pennine Way - Dufton
Distance: 9.50 miles
Ascent: 1,700ft
Time: 6 hours 15 minutes
With: Anne and Roger & Ann Hiley
Notes:
Overcast, light winds, warmer than expected
Area
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The fountain in the village of Dufton with Dufton Pike behind
Heading up the valley of Great Rundale Beck
Old mine workings, Great Rundale Beck
Looking back down the valley to Dufton Pike
Lunch at the shooting box near Great Rundale Tarn
Heading across the pathless moorland
The peak in the distance is Mickle Fell
The footbridge across the Maize Beck gorge
Maize Beck
Our first view of High Cup
The south side of High Cup
The north side of High Cup with part of the large group of walkers from Whitley Bay scrambling out of the valley
High Cup Gill
High Cup Gill
Another shot of the north side of High Cup
Nichol Chair, High Cup
Looking back to High Cup Nick
Looking across the valley to Murton Pike with Wild Boar Fell (left) the Howgill Fells (right) in the distance
Dufton Pike with Knock Pike behind from the descent to Dufton
A barn catches the afternoon sun
The Stag Inn, Dufton
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