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Andy Beck - On Location

Route details and photographs of areas where Andy has been walking, sketching and gathering references for future work.

This route was part of Andy's fascinating and unique project "The Wainwrights in Colour". Click here

1st December 2009. Caudale Moor.

This was a shortish outing to give my new boots a try out. It was a rather overcast afternoon with low cloud coming and going over the fell tops. Still, it was good to be back out on the hills once again.

Troutbeck Tongue from the roadside with Ill bell behind with a dusting of snow.

Windermere form near the summit of Kirkstone pass. A hard frost meant the surface water was frozen on the land.

 

I parked at the Kirkstone Pass Inn before heading up onto the fell.

 

Brotherswater from the slopes of Caudale Moor.

 

Across Kirkstone Pass Red Screes has also a dusting of snow.

 

Zeta is also pleased to be out on the hills once again.

Path repairs in progress, heavy recent rains have made the problem more acute.

 

Above the snow-line looking back to the south.

 

Cloud build-up over St Sunday Crag.

 

Atkinson Monument and Red Screes.

 

Summit cairn of Caudale Moor. (Stony Cove Pike)

 

Fleeting glimpses of Ill Bell though the low cloud.

 

The wall off the fell.

 

Ill Bell ridge.

 

Thornthwaite Crag past Pike How cairn.

 

Cairn on Hart Crag.

 

The head of Windermere seen from the descent back to Kirkstone pass. On my return to the car I drove north towards the Ullswater valley.

 

Flood damage near Cow Gate.

 

Across the road the waters not only demolished the walls but spread the stones for a distance into the fields.

 

The roadside north of Glenridding has been eroded by the high levels of the lake which can be seen on the right, now back to more normal levels.

 

Looking back along the road from near Pooley Bridge. You can see how high the waters were by the "High Tide line in the field on the right.

Hopefully my next days out will be in conditions with better light.

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