The Great Outdoors

3 High Doat to Dale Head

Ronald Turnbull picks a different approach to Dale Head

“SHE DWELT among the untrodden ways,” wrote Wordsworth. A difficult trick, you’ll be thinking, in the busy Lakeland of today. Well, you could be wrong about that. All over the place there are little ‘right of way’ marks on the map, many of them not walked even by Wainwright. One of them makes a great way up Dale Head.

Okay, so High Doat

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