Dodd Fell loop near Hawes
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- Distance
- 5.76 mi
- Elevation gain
- 335 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 335 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,201 ft
- TrailRank
- 30
- Min elevation
- 1,857 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 2 hours 2 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1624
- Uploaded
- May 14, 2024
- Recorded
- May 2024
near Cam Houses, England (United Kingdom)
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Dodd Fell loop near Hawes — Yorkshire Dales National Park
Peakbagging in the UK sucks sometimes! Dodd Fell Hill (668m) and Drumaldrace (614m) near the beautiful town of Hawes done on a wet and dismal day. Sixteen kilometres done in two separate outings...love the Dales!
This is a nice outing with decent parking at the start point. I was hiking Drumaldrace at the same time, so started from the same place for both routes and didn't have a good weather day with views for both hikes. My up route for Dodd Hill followed the road south west until I came to a stone wall on the right, and I followed this wall until I headed off piste north, uphill, to hit the trig pointed summit. This was an okay route, but very boggy along the wall, with many short detours to avoid the wet ground. Coming down from the top is a pretty decent path. Personally, I would try and come up this way if I was doing it again. Once down from the top, you join the Pennine Way on a good wide track that takes you SW until you rejoin a tarmac road that you take for a good three kilometres back to the start point.
Parking: Decent gravel car park at the start point, and another one nearby.
Route Description: Road, good track (Pennine Way), boggy wall stretch, and steep uphill and downhill to the summit.
Route Statistics: 9.5 kilometres with nearly 200 metres of height gain done in two hours.
Peakbagging in the UK sucks sometimes! Dodd Fell Hill (668m) and Drumaldrace (614m) near the beautiful town of Hawes done on a wet and dismal day. Sixteen kilometres done in two separate outings...love the Dales!
This is a nice outing with decent parking at the start point. I was hiking Drumaldrace at the same time, so started from the same place for both routes and didn't have a good weather day with views for both hikes. My up route for Dodd Hill followed the road south west until I came to a stone wall on the right, and I followed this wall until I headed off piste north, uphill, to hit the trig pointed summit. This was an okay route, but very boggy along the wall, with many short detours to avoid the wet ground. Coming down from the top is a pretty decent path. Personally, I would try and come up this way if I was doing it again. Once down from the top, you join the Pennine Way on a good wide track that takes you SW until you rejoin a tarmac road that you take for a good three kilometres back to the start point.
Parking: Decent gravel car park at the start point, and another one nearby.
Route Description: Road, good track (Pennine Way), boggy wall stretch, and steep uphill and downhill to the summit.
Route Statistics: 9.5 kilometres with nearly 200 metres of height gain done in two hours.
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