I worked 7mhz & 10mhz but just couldn’t hang around to activate 14mhz.
It was windy, cloudy, misty and drizzle. I can normally keep warmish, but the zip on my anorak had broken so it wouldn’t zip up. I simply got colder. and colder, fingers froze… 1hr on the summit of Great Shunner Fell was enough. 33 CW QSOs
On the way down I saw/heard a number of curlews, skylarks, meadow pipits and a short earred owl out hunting. Plenty of heather about so plenty of grouse too - this is a grouse moor for shooting.
Coming down - Lovely Seat in the distance
My new SOTA Dog Alfie, (rescue dog 1 year old) His first SOTA outing.
The ‘cowhouses’, or barns as folk from outside the area call them are unique to the Yorkshire dales.
Almost all the field boundaries in the Yorkshire Dales are drystone walls. These are distinctive to this Pennine area and have two rows of ‘truffers’, or through stones. Quite distinctive - if you are a waller.
Good Morning David. Thank you for Your Activation report. Good Descriptions and very good Photographs. Many thanks for the two CW QSO’s with you on G/NP-006. sorry for my poor CW. Your CW is Excellent. Very Well Done in those Cold conditions. 73 de Paul M0CQE.
Thanks David for the pictures - and especially the picture of the cowhouse signboard. I grew up in the West Riding and loved the dales with the ‘barns’ but I didn’t remember how they were used, Very interesting and I am so relieved that they are protected, presumably, and thus not being turned into cottages with gravelled drives like a similar structure I passed near Sharp Haw in the Northern Pennines which I passed recently. I went for a look at your wall and hedge website and was very interested in your pictures and explanations of different walling techniques. An elderly friend who lived locally iin Herefordshire was a waller and he was never short of work so could pick and choose what he fancied doing but he can no longer lift the bigger stones and has had to retire. Every so often I have to ask go back to the Yorkshire Dales for another view of stone walls and cowhouses (now I know what they are called) with, if lucky, the addition of some lapwings and the call of the curlew. Parking recently in cloud at the cattle grid for Great Whernside G/NP-008 we got the birds (especially the lapwings) but the walls were more difficult to spot …
