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
14th May 2008
The first route on the fourth day of a week in the North
Western Fells of the Lake District. We based ourselves in Lorton in the campsite
of The Wheatsheaf Inn, a convenient location to reach all 29 of these hills.
Castle Crag is a lone fell that we went
for this morning. To get the references I needed it meant that I would take an
unusual route up this popular crag. We parked in Grange and headed through Peace
How, past Hollows farm, following the river to the quarries and caves on the
Rosthwaite side before joining the main route to the top.
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On route I had a stroll by the verdant Newlands Beck.
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Looking to Skiddaw.
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Castle Crag from Peace How. |
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Following the river below Low How.
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Rosthwaite and Eagle Crag.
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A superb fungus growth on an Oak in the woods.
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Summer in Borrowdale.
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Castle Crag summit.
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Skiddaw and Derwentwater.
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South to Borrowdale.
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And East to Helvellyn.
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Looking back up to the crag.
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Later in the day I had a short evening walk to Lanthwaite
Hill. hardly a route but great for some views.
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In Lanthwaite Wood.
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The grassy top in the evening sunlight. Rannerdale
Knotts and the High Stile range.
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Mellbreak and Crummock Water.
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Evening Bluebells.
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And Whiteside and Whin Ben from Lanthwaite Green.
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