Tag: Tarn
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Tarn Hows
One of the National Trust’s iconic properties. A place for which I have a lot of affection. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Bowscale Tarn
Cirques are giant hollows scooped out of the fellside by glacial ice. They are typically referred to as corries in Scotland, as cwms in Wales and more often as coves or combs in the Lake District. But the cirque in which Bowscale Tarn sits is un-named despite it being arguably the best example of a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Where was I today?
On the Lake District Mountain Trial so somewhere in the Lakes. But where? A reservoir, although a tarn existed before it was enlarged at the turn of the twentieth century. Apparently there was a riot amongst its construction workers when several were shot including one fatality. Quite peaceful today. No prizes only the kudos of being a…
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Gurnal Dubs
A cracking morning on Potter Fell in the foothills of the Lakes north of Kendal. A quiet area largely ignored by those in a hurry to get into the big fells. A dub is a small pond and there were indeed originally three dubs until Richard Fothergill II built a dam to create the much larger lake of just under eight acres we see today.…
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Lanty's Tarn
Lanty’s Tarn sits at the end of the ridge between the Grisedale and Glenridding valleys. It’s a natural tarn that has been enlarged with a concrete dam wall to provide a water supply to Patterdale Hall. There is some debate as to how the tarn was formed. One opinion is that the hollow which it…
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Tarn Hows
One of the jewels of the Lake District. Originally three tarns that were dammed into one in Victorian times.
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Brotherswater
Brotherswater is named after two brothers who drowned in there on New Year’s Day 1812 whilst skating on the frozen lake. Before that the lake was known as Broad Water. ‘Water’ of course comes from ‘vatn’ a Norse word for a lake.