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Lake District (UK) { 515 images } Created 29 Jun 2013

Images from the Lake District. Many of these were taken for publication with walking routes, others are from trips shooting for the Scafell Pike film or just because it's a nice place to walk!
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  • Winter sunset over Ill Bell from Kentmere Pike
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  • Winter sunset over Ill Bell from Kentmere Pike
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  • Early Morning view across Derwent Water to Catbells
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  • View across the Newlands valley to Crag Hill
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  • Looking down the valley to Skiddaw from Knott End
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  • Looking down the valley to Skiddaw from Knott End
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  • If the ground is frozen solid a turf axe can be useful! (The top of the scrambly section on Knott End)
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  • Looking down the valley to Skiddaw from Knott End
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  • View across the Newlands valley to Crag Hill, Wandope and Grasmoor
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  • View down the sneaky gully hidden by Bull Crag across to the Grasmoor group
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  • The 576 summit of Maiden Moor is marked by a small cairn - you could easily miss it!
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  • Fantastic view down the ridge of Catbells
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  • Easy going along the grassy ridge of Skelgill Bank
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  • Easy going along the grassy ridge of Skelgill Bank
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  • Skiddaw and the Lower Skelgill Bank looking particularly fine in the late afternoon light
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  • Pink skies on the Yewthwaite bridleway
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  • Early morning view towards Scafell Pike in winter
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  • Early morning view towards Scafell Pike in winter
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  • Looking towards Scafell Pike across reeds and rock in calm lake (Wastwater)
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  • Sunlight catches the screes of Wastwater on a calm day in late Autumn.
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  • Morning view from the tent (winter wildcamp on EskPike)
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  • Eskdale from Border End - looking back towards the Roman Fort
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  • Break in the clouds at sunset over Eskdale
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  • Fogbow over Grey Knotts and Sour Milk Gill, Borrowdale
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  • Walker on rocky outcrop with cloud inversion in the Borrowdale valley looking towards Seatoller from end of Gillercomb
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  • The edge between the cross-shaped stone shelter on Helvellyn and Swirral Edge can sometimes form dangerous cornices in winter.
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  • Buttermere sunset from the lakeside path
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  • Wasdale Head Inn in late afternoon sunshine
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  • Thorn Crag provides some entertaining (if broken) scrambling that can feel surprisingly exposed at times! (Best done in late morning sun to avoid encroaching cold shadows!)
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  • Lorton Vale and Fellbarrow from Swinside
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  • It's really not a scramble! On the lower section of the groove on Hopegill Head
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  • The gently rising track up to "Hole in the Wall" makes fairly easy going of the ascent out of Grisedale.
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  • On top of the world at Red Pike, with Crummock Water in the distance.
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  • On the descent from High Raise with the Langstrath valley in view
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  • Entering the secretive Glendermackin valley, the razor-edged Sharp Edge begins to dominate the far landscape
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  • Scrambling over one of the mini-pinnacles on Sharp Edge
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  • Scrambling on the mini-pinnacles of the knife-edge arete of Sharp Edge
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  • A flatter section of Sharp Edge - with Scales Tarn below
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  • Ascending Foule Crag
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  • Ascending Foule Crag
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  • Scales Tarn from atop Blencathra's summit ridge
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  • Detour a little further from the path junction for best views down into Lower Wasdale from Irton Fell
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  • The view just gets better as you continue beyond the summit of Illgill Head
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  • You can see the head of Wastwater from the descent slopes of Illgill Head
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  • The path runs near a drystone wall at the start of the rise up Irton Fell
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  • Greathall Gill is surprisingly wide. It apparently contains the remains of a plane lower down.
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  • The ridgeline between Whin Rigg and Illgill Head is wide and grassy, almost plateau like in places
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  • A slight (and often windy) detour is worth it for a great view of Wastwater from Whin Rigg
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  • A slight (and often windy) detour is worth it for a great view of Wastwater from Whin Rigg
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  • Detouring shortly before the false summit of Illgill Head is worthwhile for the views over Wastwater and Yewbarrow
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  • The gullies down to Wastwater Screes are precipitously steep!
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  • Just when you thought it was now all boring grassy slopes, Kirkfell, Gable and Scafell rise up majestically on the horizon (just before the summit of Illgill Head)
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  • Ascending a well-trodden track to Great Dodd - the weather is undecided as to whether shorts or full windproof layers are best!
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  • The Summit Cairn Watson's Dodd provides a small respite from a biting wind
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  • Stybarrow Dodd
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  • The generally broad and grassy ridgeline continues across Stybarrow Dodd
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  • View down the Glencoyne valley to the head of Ullswater from Stybarrow Dodd
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  • The beehive shaped cairn on Raise is very distinctive
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  • Swirral Edge, looking sharp in the afternoon sun, from the N Ridge of Helvellyn
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  • Red Tarn and Swirral Edge from Helvellyn summit
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  • Wildcamp on Helvellyn
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  • Wildcamp on Helvellyn
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  • Wildcamp on Helvellyn
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  • Wildcamping under the stars on Helvellyn
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  • Fantastic view over the western fells from Helvellyn - with Great Gable roughly in the middle of the image view
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  • Striding Edge from Nethermost Pike
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  • Its worth the effort of ascending to Dollywagon Pike for good views down Patterdale
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  • View towards Helvellyn and Nethermost from Dollywagon Pike
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  • Overlooking the western crags of Mousthwaite Comb
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  • Sharp Edge from below the tarn
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  • The beautiful Scales Tarn - a lovely place to stop and admire the challenging Sharp Edge from below
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  • Scales Tarn from atop Blencathra's summit ridge
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  • Wide-ranging view from the top of Hall's Fell Ridge
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  • Great views across to the Helvellyn Range from Doddick Fell
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  • Zig-zags near Blencathra summit
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  • One of the two awkward rock steps when crossing Scaley Beck
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  • Wildcamping under the stars on the side of Helvellyn
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  • Starstacked image of Barrow from Helvellyn
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  • Walker on the flattish plateau just below Esk Hause
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  • Scrambling on Sharp Edge, Blencathra
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  • Scrambling on Sharp Edge, Blencathra
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  • Scrambling on Sharp Edge, Blencathra
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