A walk with TheRambler
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Well, Saturday was decided the best day to try a difficult walk called The Langdale Pikes, you can see part of them in the picture below, the weather started off nice but soon turned......well, British I think we can call it!
As you can see, much money has been spent on making erosion on these fine walks due to footfall virtually nil. These rocks are flown up by helicopter and laid by volunteers and heritage members to create easy walking on the lower levels.
There are many beautiful waterfalls and water catchments on this walk, they say the south of England is suffering droughts, whilst here in the North our reservoirs are 97% full and there are still snow patches on the highest peaks!
A great view of this undulating landscape, as can be seen the weather in this area is never as the weatherman says!
This is Pavey Ark, if you look closely you can see the very dangerous route I took called Jacks Rake, it is the diagonal rake running from bottom right up to the left
This picture shows the unmistakable picture of Pike of Stickle, this has recently been found to be the chosen area thousands of years ago for stone-axe manufacturing! Neolithic man travelled to these parts and found the stone to be ideal for all kinds of cutting implements.
Smiling but bloody freezing on the top of Pavey Ark
And just a couple of my favourite views from up on top of the pikes
Lake Windermere is just in the background
And the full collection of photos can be found here......
http://photobucket.com/albums/ac229/TheRambler_2010/Langdale Pikes
Hope you enjoy. More to come soon......
As you can see, much money has been spent on making erosion on these fine walks due to footfall virtually nil. These rocks are flown up by helicopter and laid by volunteers and heritage members to create easy walking on the lower levels.
There are many beautiful waterfalls and water catchments on this walk, they say the south of England is suffering droughts, whilst here in the North our reservoirs are 97% full and there are still snow patches on the highest peaks!
A great view of this undulating landscape, as can be seen the weather in this area is never as the weatherman says!
This is Pavey Ark, if you look closely you can see the very dangerous route I took called Jacks Rake, it is the diagonal rake running from bottom right up to the left
This picture shows the unmistakable picture of Pike of Stickle, this has recently been found to be the chosen area thousands of years ago for stone-axe manufacturing! Neolithic man travelled to these parts and found the stone to be ideal for all kinds of cutting implements.
Smiling but bloody freezing on the top of Pavey Ark
And just a couple of my favourite views from up on top of the pikes
Lake Windermere is just in the background
And the full collection of photos can be found here......
http://photobucket.com/albums/ac229/TheRambler_2010/Langdale Pikes
Hope you enjoy. More to come soon......
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TheRambler
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Course I can mate, strange how such a small country like ours can be so different North to South!! I feel it's more a council problem though....not spending enough on underground storage, and also not repairing problems quick enough!
Gabriel1
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TheRambler said:
And of course we don't have mountains down here with water running off them into lakes.
Also worth noting that the water companies have been building many new underground reservoirs down in this part of the world......not quite the same as somewhere like Derwent Water though!
The Archangel
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No sanada.......it was really really really cold ha ha
Thanks everyone for looking, it looks like there may be a window of opportunity this weekend for another!
Thanks everyone for looking, it looks like there may be a window of opportunity this weekend for another!
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TheRambler
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Ok, I'll see what I can do!
