1st April 2011 - Conistone Dib
Walk Details
Distance walked: 7.8 miles
Total ascent: 1123 ft
OS map used: OL2 - Yorkshire Dales, Southern & Western areas
Time taken: 3.5 hrs
Route description: Grassington-Dales Way-Dib Beck-Conistone-Conistone Dib-Conistone Pie-Dales Way-Grassington
A walk from Grassington to Conistone, a climb up through Conistone Dib with the return to Grassington along the Dales Way.
Total ascent: 1123 ft
OS map used: OL2 - Yorkshire Dales, Southern & Western areas
Time taken: 3.5 hrs
Route description: Grassington-Dales Way-Dib Beck-Conistone-Conistone Dib-Conistone Pie-Dales Way-Grassington
A walk from Grassington to Conistone, a climb up through Conistone Dib with the return to Grassington along the Dales Way.
Route map
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Grassington
Grass Wood and Bastow Wood
Looking back towards Grassington with Burnsall Fell behind
Limestone pavement
Limestone scars
Crossing the dry valley of Dib Beck
Dib Beck
Kilnsey Crag in the distance on the way down into Conistone
Conistone against the backdrop of Kilnsey Crag
In the hamlet of Conistone
The entrance to Conistone Dib
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The Dib
The next section opens out..
A view back down
Higher up and it closes in again
At the top
A view back down Conistone Dib
Instead of heading south along the Dales Way to Grassington I made a short detour north to the limestone outcrop of Conistone Pie. You get a great view of upper Wharfedale on the right and Littondale on the left.
Kilnsey Crag from Conistone Pie
Conistone Pie
Another shot of Conistone Dib as I make my way back south towards Grassington
Past a preserved lime kiln..
On the Dales Way back to Grassington
Looking back
Back in Grassington