Cringle Moor
5 May 2007
The other focus of these couple of days in Yorkshire was to do a few walks to
add to the Marilyn tally, which
has become rather slow-moving of late.
So on the way back from Pickering, we stopped off on the north edge of the North
York Moors escarpment to visit the summit of Cringle Moor, Drake Howe. The old
camera appears to have made a particularly bad job of the photographs this
evening, but the light was a very odd colour, so it isn't entirely
unrepresentative!
We walked around the edge of the forest, which seemed to have suffered somewhat
in places
And emerged onto the Cleveland Way, which took us up onto the summit plateau
A viewfinder has been thoughtfully placed here, and shows some of the places
that can be seen, though without distances shown, which I always find
interesting: Cross Fell is 91 km (56 miles) away.
However, today there is little to be seen except haze.
The Cleveland Way makes its way along the edge of the escarpment.
On a slightly clearer day, we could probably identify one of tomorrow's hills
too, which is only a few kilometres to the east.
George surveys Drake Howe, the ancient summit ring with a summit cairn.
Drake Howe at the summit of Cringle Moor (435 metres above sea level).
Yorkshire holiday, May 2007
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