Fountains Fell (North/South) and Pen-y-ghent double

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A beautiful day in the Dales for a revisit to Fountains Fell as I missed the Southern Top on my first visit in bad weather.

Blue skies everywhere, sunshine but with a lovely cooling breeze.

Pen-y-ghent from near Brackenbottom

Pen-y-ghent is a distinctive summit and has many fantastic angles to it. It was extremely popular today.

Upper part of the Pen-y-ghent south ridge (Pennine Way)

Trig Point on Pen-y-ghent with Eastern Yorkshire hills in view

Fountains Fell looks a fair way from here

I followed the Pennine Way back off Pen-y-ghent and down to the road towards Fountains Fell

Looking back at Pen-y-ghent and Ingleborough beyond from the slopes of Fountains Fell

You turn off the Pennine way and follow the wall to the main Fountains Fell summit (the Hewitt)

Cairn on Fountains Fell Summit looking over to the Southern Top (a Nuttall). There is surprisingly a way marked path between the two although the ground is quite wet and boggy.

Small cairn on Southern Top looking East to Great Whernside

Fountains Fell Tarn with the North Top behind

Darnbrook Fell over to the East. It's very easy to link these two up by following the wall but I've done it once and Darnbrook doesn't have too much to recommend it so I skipped it today.

Back on the Pennine Way and descending back to the road with Pen-y-ghent ahead again

Pen-y-ghent again getting closer. The day was beautiful so I decided to make it longer by again climbing the nose of the South Ridge to the top and follow the Pennine Way back into Horton.

Final paved section to the Trig Point. Hoards of folk up there on both visits but I saw nobody on Fountains Fell.

Plover Hill along the ridge

Descending on the Pennine Way with Ingleborough ahead

One last look back at Pen-y-ghent