Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton to Ribblehead) walk
Easy route over Yorkshire's finest via the limestone paradise that is its easterly end: limestone pavement, caves, a dramatic gorge and chasm, a pot with the longest waterfall, views
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thomasgrabow
Little Ingleborough, Ingleborough, Simon Fell from Morning Shortcut
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead) [Sulber Nick Route]
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Fell Beck towards Gaping Gill, from Morning Shortcut Route
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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thomasgrabow
Pen-y-ghent from Platform 2 at Horton in Ribblesdale Station
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Limestone Bands in Ingleborough NNR
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Sulber Limestone Cragface
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Limestone Crag this side of Simon Fell and Ingleborough
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Left-to-right: Little Ingleborough, Ingleborough, Simon Fell, Park Fell
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Old Grouse Butt and Limestone Pavement
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Crummack Dale
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Moughton Scars above Crummack Dale
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Moughton Scars
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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All of Ingleborough, beyond limestone plateau
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Crummack Dale, with the Austwick Beck emerging from a cave
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Little Ingleborough, Ingleborough, Simon Fell
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Limestone Pavement (detail)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Limestone Pavement
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Layers of Limestone
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Beggar's Stile
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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5m-high limestone wall at end of dry valley
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Thieves Moss, towards Crummack Dale
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Cragface of Sulber and Thieves Moss plateau
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Sheep overlooking Thieves Moss (Pendle Hill in far distance)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Pen-y-ghent beyond Thieves Moss and Sulber
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View of the distant hills east of Settle: Sugar Loaf Hill, Settle Scar, Rye Loaf Hill
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Cairn on Long Scar with Ingleborough beyond
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Trow Gill Gorge
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Trow Gill Gorge
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Trow Gill Gorge's chasm
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View down the path through Trow Gill's chasm
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Tree growing out of pot hole wall
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Fell Beck (dry on the surface at the time) arriving at Gaping Gill
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Gaping Gill
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Gaping Gill
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Lip of Gaping Gill
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Cairns on Little Ingleborough with Ingleborough top plateau beyond
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Ingleborough in hazy weather: Trig point, pile of stones, storm shelter
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View towards Twistleton Scars (Ingleborough top plateau)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View towards Gragareth and Whernside (Ingleborough top plateau)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View towards Ribblehead Viaduct (Ingleborough top plateau)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View along the scarp to Simon Fell and Park Fell (Ingleborough top plateau)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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View towards Whernside (Ingleborough top plateau)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Descent path off Ingleborough (Three Peaks Route in reverse)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Backview to descent path off Ingleborough
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Backview from Humphrey Bottom to Ingleborough top plateau
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Twistleton Scars and Gragareth
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Whernside from Humphrey Bottom
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Boardwalk on descent
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Trees growing out of limestone bands (Scales Moor)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Limekiln on Philpin Sleights
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Sheep Barrier across Winterscales Beck (dry on the surface)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Winterscales Beck disgorging at lower level into pot hole NE of Philpin Farm
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Bend in Winterscales Beck with resurgence (top right)
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Ribblehead Viaduct across Parker's Moss
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Backview to the tiered flank of Ingleborough
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Ribblehead Viaduct, from near Gunnerfleet Farm
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Ribblehead Viaduct with views through arch to Ingleborough
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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thomasgrabow
Walking group on Moughton Scars
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Final ascent to the top plateau of Ingleborough
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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Cross-shaped storm shelter on top of Ingleborough
SWC Walk 440 - Ingleborough via Moughton Scars and Gaping Gill (Horton in Ribblesdale to Ribblehead)
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