English Lake District Daily Briefing for Thursday 17th July 2008
Updated on Wedneswday at 9.25pm
Wednesday's Lake District Pictures
Loughrigg Tarn [16/8/2008 by Tony Richards]
Tuesday's Lake District Pictures
Brooding skies to the west over Ghyll Head Reservoir, near Bowness. It is stocked with Rainbow trout for fishing [15/7/2008 by Sean McMahon]
Sunshine on High Seat, but Clough Head and the Dodds are in shadow [15/7/2008 from The Hiley's Website]
Andy's dog Hetty poses by the summit cairn on Tottlebank Height (at the Southern end of Coniston Water) [15/7/2008 by Andy Malcolm]
Other Recent Lake District pictures
Where is this? (click here to see)
The radar station on Great Dunn Fell, in the North Pennines part of East Cumbria [Sunday 13/7/2008 by Anne Bowker]
On a clear day the radar station can be seen with the naked eye from the Lake District . It is a key part of the Air Traffic Control system for the North Atlantic area. Alfred Wainwright abhors this radar station in his book Pennine Way Companion.
Older Lake District Pictures
Where is this? (click here to see)
What a great picture! Hope Park, Keswick with Skiddaw behind [taken on 26/5/2008 by Flickr user zerajera]
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
This section shows photographs from Lake District Now visitors going about their daily lives. If you would like to take part please take a suitable photograph and .
A comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album). It is called a comma because of the promient white mark on the undersides of its hind wings. It is now fairly common in the south of England but in the early 1900's it was very rare being confined to the Wye Valley [16/7/2008, my own picture]
News
A man died on Wednesday after falling 150ft (45m) while out walking. He fell from Jack's Rake at Stickle Tarn, in the Langdale Pikes.
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards visits Loughrigg Tarn
Mad About Mountains - Ann Bowker walks with Keswick rambling club in the Pennines (Route: Kirkland - Cross Fell - the Dun Fells - Milburn - Kirkland)
Loweswater Cam - The Hiley's walk High Seat (Route: Shoulthwaite Farm, alongside Goat Crag, Bleaberry Fell, High Seat, Shoulthwaite Gill back down the valley to the farm underneath Castle Crag and Iron Crag)
Wainwright Wanderings - David and Edith Brown walkin Lancashire (Route: Glasson - Crook Farm - Bank Houses - Glasson)
Gateway2The Lakes - Andy Malcolm walks Blawith Knott (at the Southern end of Coniston Water)
See yesterday's Lake District pictures
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