We decided to take advantage of the warm, dry spell to take our 7-year-old granddaughter to Hell Gill, a beautiful limestone gorge in Mallerstang ? a veritable ?cave without a roof?. Although not very long (430 m according to Limestone and Caves of the Yorkshire Dales) Hell Gill is a fine gorge, quite spectacular, in fact, with walls rising to 12?15 m and narrowing down to less than a metre.
The going is mainly dead easy (at least in dry weather), with water of varying depth up to about thigh/waist deep, but there is one point where a ~2.5 m cascade drops you into very deep water, with a ~3-m swim.
A ?through trip? takes about 20?30 minutes . . . we enjoyed it so much that we did it twice.
The going is mainly dead easy (at least in dry weather), with water of varying depth up to about thigh/waist deep, but there is one point where a ~2.5 m cascade drops you into very deep water, with a ~3-m swim.
A ?through trip? takes about 20?30 minutes . . . we enjoyed it so much that we did it twice.