English Lake District Daily Briefing for Thursday 25th September 2008
Updated on Wednesday at 9.00pm
Wednesday's Lake District Pictures
Lakeside from the lower slopes of Gummers How, with a steam train and Windermere steamer waiting [24/9/2008 by Tony Richards]
Tuesday's Lake District Pictures
Airplane wreckage near Slight Side's summit. A memorial plaque can just be seen at the bottom of the cross.
[23/9/2008 by David Hall]
This memorial remembers two young polish pilots who crashed here in thick cloud on the 12th August 1941 whilst on a training flight.
Morning at Mardale Head [taken on 23/9/2008 by Flickr user ianbelluk]
Sunday's Lake District Pictures
Where is this? (click here to see)
Hodge Close Quarry, The Furness Fells [21/9/2008 by David Hall]
Roger's dogs posing infront of Upper Eskdale with the minor summit of Pen below, from Ill Crag [21/9/2008 from The Hiley's Website ]
Saturday's Lake District pictures
Quarries at Tilberthwaite [20/9/2008 by Andrew Leaney]
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards climbs Gummers How (near Windermere)
The Lakeland Fells - Andew Leaney walks Wetherlam from Tilberthwaite (Route: Low Tilberthwaite - Steel Edge - Wetherlam - Wetherlam Edge - Birk Fell Man - Hawk Rigg - Haystacks (Tilberthwaite) - Blake Rigg (Tilberthwaite) - Low Tilberthwaite)
Lake District Walks - On Tuesday David Hall has the best walk so far this year pottering around Scafell and Slight Side (Route: Wasdale Road - Brackenclose - Green How - Sca Fell - Slight Side - Broad Tongue - Hardrigg Gill - Bulatt Bridge - Burnmoor Tarn - Maiden Castle Cairn - Corpse Road into Wasdale - Bracken Close - Wasdale Road) - And on Sunday he walks Holme Fell, the long way round (Route: Tom Gill Car Park - Yew Tree Tarn - Uskdale Gap - Holme Fell - Holme Ground Tarn - Hodge Close - Stang End - Tongue Intake Plantation - High Arneside Tarn - track to Knipe Fold - Hawkshead Hill - Wharton Tarn - Tarn Hows - Tom Gill Car Park)
Loweswater Cam - The Hiley's have a very early morning to marshall a charity walk up Scafell (Route: Seathwaite, Grains Gill, Esk Hause, Calf Cove, Broad Crag, Ill Crag, Scafell Pike and back along the same route visiting Ill Crag on the way)
See yesterday's Lake District pictures
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