Ingleborough: First Wild Camp

Camping in 'The heaviest April snowfall in Yorkshire for 30 years'
April 2nd to April 4th

This is only a brief summary of my two night stay, mainly because it was a few months ago... But I'm trying to record all my wild camping trips on this blog, so I am able to look back through them in the future.

Photograph by Jacob Hammond

We arrived at Horton-in-Ribblesdale after a 4 hour train journey, it was myself and 3 mates (Jacob, Dan and Tom) - I had planned the first day route; walking south along the River Ribble to the Dry Rig Quarry, then walking along Moughton Scars to Gaping Gill and then up Ingleborough to set up for the night. After reaching the Scars it became clear how unfit we all were, it was apparent we weren't going to make it up Ingleborough that day... And I had became 'the wanker that took us the long way round', we pitched at the foot of Ingleborough, hoping that we'd be able to get up there the next day... HA.


Before we had left, the weather predictions were slight rain, and possible sleet - I don't know how many of you reading remember 'The heaviest April snowfall in Yorkshire for 30 years' But that's what we got caught in, and we were not prepared.