Thursday, April 23, 2015

A walk around Loweswater

On Monday we drove the short distance to park at Fangs Brow, I dont think we have ever driven past this spot and never seen a car parked there.

We followed the path towards the bottom of Burnback Fell.

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Looking back at the car.

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Our first view of Loweswater.

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A couple of panoramic views.

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The tarn below Black Crag

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A couple of views of Mellbrek, it doesn't look as imposing as it does from the Kirkstile inn.

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Looking down into the valley where we would be walking shortly.

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The dogs having a well earned cooling off.

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Thankfully they havnt invented smello vision!!

 

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We are getting to be dry stone walling Geeks. This rebuild was just brilliant and they still had about 100 metres to go.

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It must have taken an age just to dismantle it, they even sorted the stones as they went along. OCD me thinks!!

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Walking towards the lake now, the path we came on is just above the tree level.

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New info boards.

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Any chance they get they are in the water.

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There has been a lot of felling here and they are leaving these beautiful Oak trees

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Past the lake now.

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There are so many lambs about now.

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If you look carefully you can see bonnie Scotland in the distance. We hope to get over this year to climb some fells.

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A 2.5 hour walk and they we were both nicely tired.