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 Spare clothing – there is no need to duplicate everything you wear or would normally carry, but some extras permanently embedded in your rucksack will prove beneficial – T-shirt, sweater, scarf, spare socks (to double as gloves, if necessary) and spare laces.

 Other bits and pieces – strong string (can double as emergency laces), small towel (for drying post-paddling feet during summer months), notebook, pencil, pocket knife and a thermal blanket or survival bag for emergencies. Hopefully you will never use it, but half a roll of toilet tissue in a sealable plastic bag has eased many an embarrassing moment.

Gordale Scar – the route lies up the brown-coloured boulder in the centre (Walk 26)

The route up to Hag Dyke, and Great Whernside beyond (Walk 28)

NORTH PENNINES

Looking up to the summit of Cross Fell (Walk 3)

The mountain uplands that rise between Hadrian’s Wall and the Yorkshire Dales spread themselves across too broad a landscape to have acquired any true generic name. Most walkers know of Cross Fell, Cauldron Snout, High Cup Nick, High Force and similar honey pots, but the region is almost 50km (30 miles) wide in places, and much the same from its most northerly summit, Cold Fell, to the Stainmore Gap, which runs either side of Brough – 2500 square kilometres (900 square miles) of wild, windy and beautiful moorland where the Pennines rise to their greatest height.