Dominic and I had completed two of the Yorkshire Peaks at the end of June, so this was an opportunity for us to do the third while D was in the Dales for a few days. The ascent to Pen-y-Ghent and the walk, following the Pennine Way route back to Horton, is a mere 6 miles but the first two of these miles are quite hard, so overall time would be around three hours.
We left Dent early in the morning, drove to Horton and parked in the public car park, before setting off on the now familiar trek towards the brooding peak of Pen-y- Ghent, which I had done in early June and more recently on the YTP Challenge.
We passed the Pen-y-Ghent cafe and turned by the church to follow the road up towards the farm at Brackenbottom where we started up the track. We followed the track in good weather and passed familiar points along the way, climbing the obstacles and gradually making our way up the incline with dry stone walls to our left. Eventually, we got to the large stile where the Pennine Way cuts across our path and we joined the track uphill, via steps and rough ground. It is at this point that it becomes quite steep so you're scrambling a little to make progress, but eventually we came onto a plateau where there is abut a short walk to the trig point and the summit.
We paused for a while to take on liquids and snacks before crossing the stile and heading downhill towards the long path back to Horton. We turned to the left after the descent, following the Pennine Way on a straight but uneventful track downhill before we made a left at Grouse Bar to continue the descent into Horton by way of Horton Scar - coming out onto the Horton main road near the cafe where we enjoyed hot drinks and bacon butties before heading back to Dent.
An OS view walk is below, courtesy of QUO digital mapping/OS
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