G/NP-007 Wild Boar Fell

Clints and Grykes

G/NP-007  Wild Boar Fell

26/07/2015

We left Hawes and headed NW along the A684 picking up the B6259 towards Nateby and parking by the side of the road at SD78269971 preparing to follow part of the Pennine Bridleway.   

My GPS track

We headed West towards the ‘bwlch’ at High Dolphinsty then SSW up towards The Nab then cutting SW towards the summit... 3.81km to summit from the car.

Part of the Pennine Bridleway -The Nab-distant centre

The 'bwlch' at High Dolphinsty right..and our ridge towards The Nab on the left

Barry (International Mountain Leader) was in his element here as I had a lesson on the formation of a limestone pavement where the deep fissures are called Grykes and the slabs are called Clints. 

The Geology lesson

Nearing The Nab

From 'The Nab' to the summit

It was cold on top and I had to put on an extra layer before setting up behind the cairn which surrounds the Trig point...the opening of the circular cairn was directly facing the wind hence having to stay outside. 

 Some protection from the wind

Once again we shared the first contacts on 60m then went our separate ways.

10:39z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	DON 5/7
10:41z	G3RDQ	5MHz	SSB	DAVID 5/6
10:43z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	JIM 5/8
10:45z	G8ADD	5MHz	SSB	BRIAN 5/7
10:47z	GI4ONL	5MHz	SSB	VICTOR 3/3
10:47z	G4OBK	5MHz	SSB	PHIL 5/3
10:49z	GW3OAJ	5MHz	SSB	CESS 5/9
10:50z	OK1SDE	14MHz	SSB	5/7
11:03z	SQ9PND	14MHz	SSB	5/5
11:03z	OE5FSL	14MHz	SSB	3/3
11:05z	EA2DT	14MHz	SSB	MANUEL 3/3
11:11z	OM1DK	14MHz	SSB	5/9 ON OM/TN-032

Once again conditions on 40m were terrible with no answers to our calls so Barry moved on to 20m following a spot by me.  I happily played on 2m and had a couple of nice but brief chats.

10:39z	G0RQL	5MHz	SSB	Don IO70uv
10:41z	G3RDQ	5MHz	SSB	David IO91gd
10:42z	EI9GLB	5MHz	SSB	Jim
10:45z	G8ADD	5MHz	SSB	Brian
10:48z	G0TDM	144MHz	FM	John
10:49z	M0PWD	144MHz	FM	Paul
10:50z	2M0BOO/M	144MHz	FM	Jason
10:51z	2E0SLK	144MHz	FM	James
10:52z	M3RDZ	144MHz	FM
10:53z	GM4WHA/M	144MHz	FM	Geoff
10:53z	G6XBF	144MHz	FM	Walt
11:13z	OM1DK	14MHz	SSB	Daniel s2s

Now panic had set in (not really..) as we had not had an s2s so I looked carefully on RRT and found Daniel OM1DK on OM/TM-032 (Baske)...a few calls and he was in our logs....thanks Daniel. The weather forecast had promised rain and high winds for the afternoon...it was getting colder and we felt a few drops of rain on our faces...time to pull the plug.   

Trig and Howgills ..distant

 A farmer on his quad passed us on his way up to look at the sheep but as the rain reached us he turned around and stopped to talk. I had just started to put on my water proof trousers when he said “You boys had better be getting off the mountain before the ‘wasser’ comes.  I’m off back down, !***!! the sheep”.  We both laughed.....:)   

I managed to get a spot up saying that we had cancelled the next summit so we went to do a ‘recce’ for the parking spot of our last summit of the trip then back down to the Wensleydale Cheese factory in Hawes to sample and purchase a selection of the products...great stuff :)   

Thanks for all the contacts and s2s.

73 Allan GW4VPX and Barry M0IML