Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: Lake District

  • Buckbarrow

    Buckbarrow

    The very prominent line of crags overlooking Nether Wasdale. Not a true summit but merely the hacked rocky end of the south ridge of Seatallan. Long Crag, Pike Crag and Bull Crag are the names. I read there is an interesting Grade 2** scramble but alas no sign of the recommended path, bracken rules. Open…

  • Sharp Edge

    Sharp Edge

    Perhaps the most notorious ridge in the Lake District, a Grade 1 scramble. Between 1947 and 2016 there have been 11 fatalities. I last climbed it on a misty, wet New Year’s Eve, 2007. The day before, although I didn’t know it at the time, someone had slipped and fell 100′. He was airlifted off…

  • Striding Edge and Red Tarn

    Striding Edge and Red Tarn

    Overnight worries evaporated after a visit by the 4th emergency service for another glorious day on the fells. A welcoming breeze climbing Helvellyn along Striding Edge. Interestingly on this day in 1996 weather scientists predicted that global warming would have the effect of moving Britain 100 miles south in the next 25 years, bringing summer…

  • Chapel Stile, Great Langdale

    Chapel Stile, Great Langdale

    A scorching day in the Lakes. Folks at Langdale Gala swelter below. A very slight breeze up high. Another hot day awaits. A good time for the car to konk out. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Troutbeck Valley

    Troutbeck Valley

    What wonderful freedoms we enjoy having access to the hills and countryside enshrined in our Open Access legislation and Rights of Way system. The Scottish Access Code or Sweden’s Allemansrätt are, I admit, very enviable but we should treasure and protect our hard won rights to enjoy the sights and sounds of the outdoors. This…

  • Angle Tarn Pikes

    Angle Tarn Pikes

    From Deepdale. The valley of Patterdale and the busy A592 hidden. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Greenside Mines

    Greenside Mines

    At Glenridding in the Lake District. A fine example of what man has done to the planet. Looking down Swart Beck through which would have stood the main mining complex. The green “field” on the left is the mining spoil, nicely reclaimed by still contaminated with arsenic and other heavy metals half a century after…

  • Tarn Hows

    Tarn Hows

    Monday mornings have always made me feel dysphoric. Not in the clinical sense but if Friday afternoons are full of euphoria because the weekend is near, then Mondays are back to reality. And the feeling is now ingrained, even though I no longer have to get up to go to work. In North Yorkshire, grey…

  • Brim Fell Ridge

    Brim Fell Ridge

    View north from the Old Man of Coniston. Brim Fell and Swirl How. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Rose Castle

    Rose Castle

    Near Tarn Hows and an opportunity to experiment with star trails in the dark skies of the Lake District away from the light pollution of town and cities. I only had enough battery power for the one trial. For the technically minded I took 30 photos of about 2 secs exposure then used a fancy…