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Walking Trips in the Lake District
For the last decade or so, I've been up to the Lake District a couple of times a year to get up into some proper hills. I keep promising to try some other areas, like Snowdonia (I've done Snowdon, but not any other hills there), but always seem to end up back in the Lakes. At first I didn't take a camera because I found that it distracts from the view: for some odd reason, as soon as you look at the scenery with an eye to what would make a good photo then you stop looking at it as scenery. The result is that you get home and realise that you can't remember any of it.
But that changed when I bought a cheap digital camera around 2003. That (Nikon) eventually broke, and was replaced by an Olympus compact of some type, which were used for the pictures below taken in 2007. From 2008 to April 2012 I used an old Canon Eos D60. That was traded in this year, and now I have a Canon Eos 60D. It's enough like the old camera that I can get started reasonably quickly, but it's lighter than the old one - a distinct advantage when it's one more item in the backpack. So now I try to take some pictures of the route and views, but that's very much dependent on the weather. Anyone who walks regularly in that area knows what that means.
Anyway, here are the various walks. You'll notice that I get a bit more verbose with time, and a bit more shutter happy. I apologise for both. But not for my photography...
07 Aug 2021. If you wasted time reading the main page of this site, then you'll know that life has been a bit complicated. As such, I've only done two trips since this was originally put up in 2012. The was to Snowdonia. The weather was brilliant, and I got some great photos. Then lost them all before I could post them on here. The second was another trip to Wasdale Head, where the weather was vile. Light was bad, and I failed to notice that my camera (A Nikon D7000, FWIW) was telling me that my settings were not going to work in the ambient conditions. As a result, all the pictures were too under-exposed to use. I still have them though... Yes, in theory I could use the wonders of GIMP to lighten them, but it doesn't seem worth it.
(Note: for a long time these pages were on my other site. The early
ones originally had very little text, and were really just a series of
pictures. As I've been moving them across I've been adding a bit more
text, which is why the tense used for some parts tends to imply quite a
long
time in the past.)
A small warning: the descriptions of the things shown in these photos are as accurate as I can make them, using my trusty OS maps and less trusty memory. In most cases they will be accurate, but in other cases, not so. I'm not one of those people who can look at a big hill and say: "Ah, that's High Street/Langdale Pike/etc". To me it's a big hill. I am getting better, and you may notice that as time passes I'm more likely to say what a big hill in the background is. But to be fair, on most cases this is down to knowing the geography, not recognition. Anyway, here we go.
Lakes September 2007 |
The Fairfield Horseshoe*, Helvellyn via Striding Edge. |
Lakes April 2008 |
Skiddaw*, Scafell from the South (not completed). |
Lakes September 2008 |
Dollywagon Pike from Patterdale*, Bowfell from Mickledon. |
Lakes May 2009 |
Great End from Seathwaite*, High Street from
Hartsop.
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Lakes September 2009 |
Stony Cove Pike, Great End and Scafell Pike from Seathwaite, Whiteside and Raise from Thirlmere. |
Lakes April 2010 |
Swirl How from Wrynose Pass, Blencathra, Great Gable from Seathwaite*. |
Lakes September 2010 |
Red Screes, St Sunday Crag and Grisedale Tarn from Patterdale, Old Man of Coniston from Wrynose Pass. |
Lakes May 2011 |
Wansfell, Helvellyn Lower Man to High Crag from Thirlmere, Esk Pike from Seathwaite, Crinkle Crags from Wrynose Pass*. |
Lakes September 2011 |
Stybarrow Dodd to Great Dodd*, Grasmoor from Braithwaite*, Green Gable from Honnister Pass*, Glaramara and Allen Crags from Seathwaite*, Fairfield Horseshoe*. |
Lakes April 2012 |
Pillar via Black Sail Pass, Scafell via Burnmoor Tarn, Sprinkling Tarn via Styhead. |
* means bad weather stopped me from taking pictures of at least part of the route.