Parking: Any where you like on the B6270 close to the footpath finger post against the road. 

Refreshments: Nothing for miles, take a flask.

Toilets:  None

For views from the Rigg this walk has no equal. The majestic fells of the Lake District are framed by the Howgill Hills to the South and Teesdale and the Pennines to the North. Your route starts approximately 200 metres over the County boundary in Cumbria, so this isn't strictly a Dales walk. After parking the car on the roadside verge close to the finger post pointing the way to Rollinson Haggs and Hartley. Make sure you pack a flask, lunch, a map and compass into your rucksack, choose a cloudless sky but pack your shell and over trousers just in case and set off across this wildest of moorland in a Northerly direction along a faint grassy path until you reach a small way marker. At this point  your route swings North Easterly through an extensive limestone pavement, home to spring nesting Golden Plover, Sky Larks and energetic Lapwings twisting, rolling and turning in the sky above you. Leaving the pavements behind, this spongy grassy path picks its way through a series of  deep shake holes before descending into Rollinson Gill. With a stone wall to your left, cross the beck and begin your steep ascent out the other side, taking time to look at the distant view toward Alston through Duckerdale and its limestone scars.

At this point you will have noticed what remains of a stone building on the horizon ahead, this is Baxton Gill Head and your path heads in it's direction as it hairpins its way up the hillside. Disregarding a similar stone outcrop on the horizon to the East, once reached what's left of this building provides welcome shelter on an inclement day, its low walls having been reconstructed many times by walkers seeking refuge from a cold Westerly. 

Having rested a while continue on the path as it climbs steadily in the direction of a finger post marking the route for Wainwright's Coast to Coast. Cross this junction and climb toward the peat haggs as you near the summit cairn and the Rigg beyond. The path is hardly visible from here and it requires your vigilance as you cross its deep channels of dark peat topped with rough grasses and sedges. As you climb out of the last channel your route swings North Westerly to a prominent stone cairn erected by the Kirby Stephen Fell Search Team to commemorate Charles's first marriage to Diana. From here the Standards come into view but the bronze plaque set into the top will have you pouring over it's useful information on the names and positions of distant fells before continuing the short distance to the Rigg and the enormous Nine Standards.

Take a while to explore and speculate on the Standards origins for no one is quite sure of their purpose. Their importance cannot be underestimated for they give their name to the hilltop and appear on eighteenth century maps. Their closeness to the county boundary suggest they may have been markers or simply structures created by local workers with spare time to practice their building skills. Important they are, for moves are afoot to restore their splendour. 

On your descent you can check your vigilance because it is time to retrace steps and return to the start of your walk by the same route.