At the start of the climb looking back towards the Eden Valley.
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| Undulating hills
As you get higher the quality of the soil is poorer.
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| Look at the dry stone wall field boundaries
The bracken has died back and the trees are bare.
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| The hills meet the road
Lovely signposts from the days when the local authority was Cumberland.
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| How many miles to Alston?
As you climb more and more of the spectacular view is revealed. The road twists and turns so the view is constantly changing.
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| Now the Lakeland hills can be viewed in the distance.
More barren rock is exposed on the hillside.
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| Tubes for new trees to protect them from rabbits and deer
A moorland landscape at the top of Hartside which is 756 metres high.
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| A regiment of conifers adds a patch of green to a bleak landscape.
A field barn stands lonely with only a few sheep for company.
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| On the Alston side of the Hartside summit.
Looking across towards Cross Fell.
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| If you look carefully you can see a few houses scattered in the landscape. Looking through the barren tree branches towards a stream. |
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| Gnarled and twisted branches covered in moss and lichen
Look at the rock strata and the tufted grass.
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| Chunky slabs of rock
A dry stone wall.
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| Look at the structure of the wall. Some stones go through the wall and these are known as
'throughs' and they lock both sides of the wall together.
I saw this from the road between Bolton Abbey and Blubberhouses in North Yorkshire. Halloween meets the Tour de France or as it is known in Yorkshire the Tour de Yorkshire.
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| No broomstick for me, cackle cackle
On a house wall in Harrogate.
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| A tour de force. |
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| The clouds are tinted with the setting sun
The colours change so quickly. Look at the spaces between the clouds.
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| Can you see the vapour trail of a plane like an arrow in the sky? Do you think sheep are interested in a sunset? |
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| The hills are bathed in the palest of pale pink hues |
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