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Englands highest Stag do today!

25/10/2014

Scafell Pike today might have been a very wet and windy place today but there was no stopping a group of friends out on a Stag Do reaching the summit. We went up from Borrowdale via Ruddy Gill and Esk Hause, and made it a circular route by descending via the Corridor route and Styhead Tarn. It was so wet that the camera only came out once and that was at the rocky step on the Corridor route - this short rocky step looks harder than it is but always adds a bit more excitement and interest to the day.
Thanks for a great day out Sean, Eddy, David, Angus, Lawrence, Daniel and Adam!
Kate

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Dancing on the summit!

19/10/2014

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Getting to the summit was such an achievement that this girl decided to have a dance! She was part of a group from Global Radio, who were raising funds by walking to the summit of Scafell Pike (whilst other groups summited Ben Nevis and Snowdon) for their charity Make Some Noise, an event run by Ultimate TD who I was working for that day.
Every one of the group reached the summit and enjoyed the wonderful views of the Lake District which appeared in a break in the clouds.

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Paths, bogs and Junipers

10/10/2014

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I recently had a very wet but interesting day out in Langdale on a Leader's Landscape training day, organised by Friends of the Lake District, from which I hope I have gained a better understanding of the huge pressures that walkers, fell-runners and other users of the great outdoors put on the landscape, wildlife and its habitats.

We walked up and over Lingmoor, stopping below the summit at the wild Lindmoor Tarn for lunch and heard from Richard Fox, a National Park Fix the Fells ranger about the paths we walk on in the fells - why the need to maintain and repair them and how we can help keep good care of them for the future. I was amazed to hear how much damage can be caused to vegetation and soil by even one person using the same route on a regular basis - an important reason for staying on the already used paths.

We also had Simon Thomas from Cumbria Wildlife Trust with us who talked about the upland wetlands (bogs!), wildlife, heather and junipers. He showed us the depth of the bog by Lingmoor Tarn by using a probe - it was 3 metres deep! We saw an area near Blea Tarn where an upland wetland project has been taking place and I learnt that Sphagnum moss is a peat forming plant - in fact without it there would be no peat - and it is also a plant without roots!

We also learnt about the important part that Juniper plays in the Cumbrian fells. These trees or shrubs can live up to 200 years but are now in decline because of poor regeneration so there are planting projects taking place in our fells. Unlike other conifers, Junipers are important because good soil forms beneath them in which other plants and trees can then grow. Unfortunately because they grow so slowly and there is also now a disease affecting them, these projects are not always successful.

All in all it was a useful and thought-provoking day.

Kate.

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Sunshine on the summits

2/10/2014

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Absolutely glorious conditions on the fells today.

I met up with Jennifer & Michael from London this morning. Staying at the fine Waterhead Hotel in Ambleside, from there we travelled the short distance to The Old Dungeon Ghyll in Langdale.

Views from the off were mesmerising, Langdale, Mickleden, and Oxendale in all their glory.

Progress was rapid and in only 3 hours we were enjoying lunch on the highest mountain in England.

Our return was a little more leisurely, but not much. Time to have a look at some plants and spy some birds flying overhead.

Shadows were casting their magical spell over the Langdale valley, we had to slow down, stop, and breath in this amazing view.
Autumn is here and the Lakes are now at there very best.

Mark

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Englands highest Stag do today!

Dancing on the summit!

Paths, bogs and Junipers

Sunshine on the summits

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