DAY 6 – 28th August 2020
Malham to Horton in Ribblesdale
16.65 miles 26.8km
8.55am to 3.20pm
We had asked for an early breakfast and been told this wouldn’t be a problem. It may not have been a problem for the person we talked to yesterday but the cook this morning wasn’t impressed. I don’t feel it was my fault that the message wasn’t passed on.
Rain, wind and cloud were very much the order of the day today.
Climbing up to the top of the cove in the wind I had no desire to go anywhere near the edge.
Today it really felt as if we had travelled a long way as I remembered much of the early part of the walk from holidays then I was young.
Past the tarn we met one of the people we had seen at our accommodation in Diggle and then another PW walker who we later found out was called Charlie.
Fountains Fell was deep in cloud, very windy and the heavily waterlogged path not actually going over the top made it all feel a bit strange. We dropped down, and out of the cloud to be greeted by Pen-y-ghent.
As we were leaving the road to start the walk-in to the bottom of the hill Charlie caught up with us and we walked and talked, a really nice, sociable young guy. We pulled ahead of him on the climb up to the very very windy summit where we clung together for a picture.
I hadn’t realised until we headed to it that the Pen-y-ghent cafe has been closed for 2 years.
We were staying at the Golden Lion which was having to turn people away they were so busy. It was the start of the bank holiday weekend. Rob suddenly remembered that he had been there about 18 months ago camping next to the pub with some friends. Did he recall the hills or even the names of the places, no it was the interior of the bar which triggered his memory.