June 2009. We included the link route from Leeds before completing the official Dales Way walk from Ilkley to Bowness in the Lake District - a total length of just over one hundred miles covered in seven days. For the most part fairly easy walking along river valleys but blisteringly hot for the first four days, then gradually cooling down for the ascent to cross the Pennine Way. Rain on the final leg didn't detract from a lovely walk.
