Distance: 14.5 miles, with detour to Hawdraw
Weather: sunny, but a strong chill easterly wind on the tops.
The bright sun shining into our room was a little misleading this morning, as once we were outside it turned out to be quite chilly. After we had walked back up the road (no stoats today, in fact not many critters at all today) we took advantage of a bit of shelter to change tops and hats and put on windproof jackets. These stayed on for most of the rest of the day - bit of wasted suncream there.
The track, the Cam High Road, is an old roman road which leads up to meet the Pennine Way. For a roman road, it's not particularly straight. The local farmers were doing a bit of sheep herding - they got all but one of them, who looked up eventually and seemed a bit confused as to where everyone else had gone.
The rocky path led across the hilltop and around into the valley to Hawes. Dropping down through some fields, where we saw a plover, we arrived in town. After dropping off our bags at the hostel, we had a nice afternoon tea and went to see Hawdraw Force waterfall. This was pretty impressive despite lack of recent rain, although in our view this is a good thing.
Some quick shopping for a new compass (mine had suffered in a handgel related incident) and a new nail file and lunch for tomorrow purchased. We are now having dinner and a couple of very nice pints of Theaksons in one of Hawes' fine establishments. Off to bed soon, early start tomorrow.
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