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1. The plan had been to go to the Peak District for our next hill day.
2. However, the ‘breezy’ day with ‘sunny intervals’ turned out to be
3. ‘blowing a hoolie’ and ‘light rain’. Our last outing to Malham on Boxing
4. Day {26th December) had seen us blown and buffeted round the hillside. I
5. for one wasn’t especially keen to repeat the experience, but didn’t have
6. an alternative ready. It was Chris who saved the day by suggesting the
7. Ingleton Waterfall Walk.

8. The logic was simple – if we were going to have a wet day, we might as
9. well see the Ingleton Falls at their most dramatic. It seemed that we had
10. got that bit right when we spoke to the bloke at the car park – he said that
11. there had been one rain-free day over the past four weeks. Well, we
12. wanted the spectacular, but you should be careful what you wish for!
13. The Waterfalls Walk is the kind of outing that hardy hillwalkers would
14. usually sneer at – the walk is at low level, starting at about 115 metres
15. and reaching a high point of about 285 metres. It is also fairly short, at a
16. bit less than 8 kms (five miles) but on the plus side the route is sheltered
17. from the winds by the twists and turns of the valleys. There is one major
18. drawback, though – you have to pay to get in!

19. It’s not a question of being mean, after all there are many other places in
20. the world where payment is required for access to a trail, but it just
21. doesn’t sit well with the British freedom of the hills ethic – with emphasis
22. on the word free! However, the promise of a dramatic watery day was
23. enough to overcome this objection, so securely wrapped in waterproofs
24. we set out.

25. The walk has been a popular outing since 1885. The outward section
26. ascends alongside the River Twiss, walking through woodland with the
27. river always close by. The first incident is Pecca Falls, where a series of
28. five cascades drop 30 metres through rocks that are 500 Million years
29. old. The cascades are impressive enough when the water level is normal,
30. but the river in spate made an impressive display.

Text and images © Paul Shorrock
(Shorrock, P. (2012) Water, water, everywhere [online]
http://hillcraftguidedwalking.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/59-water-watereverywhere/
(Accessed 20 April 2012))
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