Category: Great Fryup Dale
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South End, Great Fryup Dale
On Glaisdale Rigg looking across a sea of cloud to the whaleback hill known as Heads which separates the two Fryup Dales, Great and Little. The sun is shining on the South End of Heads. Temperature or cloud inversions offer the most spectacular atmospheric conditions. The dense cold air of the valley is capped by…
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Great Fryup Dale
After several trips of exploration around Great Fryup Dale this is becoming one of my most favourite views in the North York Moors. An example of a geological undercliff on the left, providing a complex area of knolls, re-entrants and depressions, just ripe for an orienteering map. A glorious frosty morning, followed by a Great…
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An undercliff, Great Fryup Dale
I posted a photo of Great Fryup Dale last year when I wrote about my fascination for an area at the head of the valley called The Hills. A chaotic jumble of knolls, ridges and depressions. The same question returned. What caused this landscape? Quarrying? Alum extraction? Canon J.C. Atkinson, the vicar of Danby, also…