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Day 46 Middleton in Teesdale to Langdon Beck (over 600 miles completed!)

 

The day started with me driving up to Hexam for a morning rock choir session with Rob Slater. Again, very friendly rockies and Rob was an entertaining and skillful leader, lots of work on the dynamics of the song that we're learning, 'Unwritten'.

Once I'd returned, we drove to Middleton in Teesdale to continue walking from yesterday's end point yesterday. 

We walked out of Middleton in Teesdale together, through sheep fields and meadows alongside the River Tees. Alfie was particularly good at negotiating stone stiles with bars at the top and enjoyed himself more than the windy day yesterday. We left Garry after a mile and a half as we approached a metal A frame type stile which looked particularly difficult for a whippet to negotiate.

 

Garry carried on with the River Tees as his constant companion. It was a very pleasant along the river, passing Low Force and then High Force, two waterfalls.




  


As Garry progressed up the river, the path became more rocky and he was caught in a couple of heavy showers. 


Once he got to Langdon Beck, Garry decided to add a bit of tomorrow's walk towards Cow Green reservoir to reduce the mileage as it promises to be quite an arduous day. 

I collected Garry after waiting a while at Cow Green reservoir for a number of showers. The Langdon Beck Hotel was calling us for a drink and a snack on our return to the Airbnb.

Tomorrow's walk has been replanned from the initial one to reduce mileage and climbing, It's now from Langdon Beck to Alston, avoiding the Pennine Way in an attempt to cut out a day's walking. This has been after discussion with other end to enders online and also lots of OS map studying! Garry will be glad to get tomorrow's walk successfully completed.

The new route

Garry has walked nearly 11 miles, not bad for a 2pm start, and me and Alfie 3 miles before the A frame stile.


Also, a total of 600 miles walked for Garry and over 200 for me!

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  1. Phil (Veg).25 June 2025 at 00:48

    I wondered if you'd try a more direct route, as the Pennine Way does a huge loop out to the west, before coming back to Alston. Very sensible!

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