Walk Information
Walk route: Dufton - road - Harbour Flatt - High Cup Gill - High Cup Nick - Maize Beck - Pennine Way - Dufton
Distance: 10.25 miles
Ascent: 1,550ft
Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
With: David Hall and Anne
Conditions: Low cloud to start but lifting and breaking to give hazy sunshine, warm
Route Map
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Photos
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The road to Murton from Dufton
Heading up High Cup Gill and the cloud is down, I hope it lifts and breaks as forecast!
Nichol Chair from below as the cloud starts to lift a bit
Looking up towards High Cup Nick
High Cup Gill
A steep climb up out of the gill
High Cup Gill's northern escarpment
High Cup Gill's southern escarpment
Whin Sill
High Cup Nick
Looking towards Meldon Hill
Maize Beck
Maize Beck gorge
Maize Beck gorge
The footbridge across the Maize Beck gorge
Maize Beck
Limestone, High Cup Plain
Nichol Chair
Nichol is said to have been a Dufton cobbler who climbed the rock tower and then soled and heeled a pair of boots whilst sitting on the top.
High Cup Nick from above Nichol Chair
Looking across High Cup Gill to Murton Pike
Heading down the Pennine Way to Dufton
Limekiln in the disused quarry near Peeping Hill
Dufton Pike from the descent to Dufton
The track down to Dufton, the Lake District is lost in the heavy haze
Barn near Gregory
Dufton Pike from the fountain in the village of Dufton with The Stag Inn on the far left
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