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Saturday Walk: 21st June – High Crag Ridge from Dacre Banks 6.75 miles – Harder category
June 21, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
The walk will start from the small free car park opposite the Royal Oak Inn on Oak Lane in Dacre Banks at 9:30am.
We’ll go past the public toilet at the start of the walk. If it is working, there’s only one actual toilet so it can delay the walk quite a lot if there’s 12 of us needing to use it.
The walk is all uphill – 944 feet of climbing until we reach the trig point, about halfway round. There are field paths but also some good tracks for this section. There are fabulous views of Nidderdale, including Menwith Hill.
After the trip point it’s mostly downhill; on some good tracks and some grassy paths too. Towards the final section of the walk, it’s fairly flat along a path not far from the Nidd (that we walk along in the opposite direction on another walk you may have done from Dacre Banks). We have to walk on a footpath by the roads up to The Firs Tearoom and back.
There’s a variety of stiles and gates on this walk and sheep, cows and horses may be encountered.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, which take account of the weather forecast, and bring a drink. Poles are very useful on the uphill and downhill sections as well as for stability when we encounter some mud, but I’m not insisting on them at this time of the year.
I do my best to assess the weather and the likely walking conditions but would ask everyone to decide whether a particular walk is right for them on that day. Please note that everyone taking part in the walk does so at their own risk
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