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My family and I have been holidaying in The Lake District for many years. The area is unique in offering such an incredible amount of stunning scenery in such a compact area. Every season has its own attractions and despite its reputation for rain, we have only had one seriously wet week!

I intend to gradually add further seasons to those currently recorded here to provide a complete annual cycle. Click on one of the buttons below to see the related season.

I hope you enjoy viewing these images as much as I enjoyed walking in the fells and taking them. Feel free to e-mail your comments.

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Walk 1

Chapel Stile (Langdale) -> Sawrey's Wood -> Dale End -> Lingmoor Fell -> Blea Tarn House -> Blea Tarn -> Side Pike -> Side House -> Oak Howe -> Chapel Stile

This walk has some of the most picturesque views of any in The Lake District. Whatever the season there is always a profusion of colour and fabulous vistas round every corner. It's an easy walk with nicely graded ascents on old mining tracks and several obvious break points on Lingmoor Fell and at Blea Tarn.

Walk 2

Chapel Stile (Langdale) -> Dow Bank -> Hammerscar Plantation -> Red Bank -> Grasmere -> The Wyke -> Wyke Plantation -> Megs Gill -> Chapel Stile

This is another easy walk with some excellent vistas down to Grasmere. The walk passes a crumbled stone hut and the remains of some old mine buildings whose iron parts have rusted beautifully. The walk up from The Wyke provides stunning autumn colours.

Walk 3

Old Dungeon Ghyll (Langdale) -> Stool End -> Oxendale -> Hell Gill -> Three Tarns -> Crinkle Crags -> Cold Pike -> Red Tarn -> Browney Gill -> Brown Howe -> Stool End -> Old Dungeon Ghyll

This is a more strenuous route but with some truly exceptional views. The climb up besides Hell Gill provides a plethora of waterfalls and a very pretty set of stepping stones across the gill where I fell in! The remaining trudge up to Three Tarns is a bit monotonous but the view at Three Tarns is breathtaking with Bow Fell to one side, Crinkle Crags to the other, a number of large boulders, The Scafell range ahead and Oxendale and Langdale laid out behind you. The winding route along Crinkle Crags opens up further views of The Duddon Valley and Eskdale. After dropping down it's an easy walk to Cold Pike where you drop down to Red Tarn and Browney Gill which offers more attractive nooks and crannies before returning to Oxendale and Stool End Farm.

Walk 4

Li'l Ratty Station at Boot (Eskdale) -> Esk View Farm -> Low Birker -> Tarn Crag -> Foxbield Moss -> Green Crag -> Long Crag -> Dow Crag -> Penny Hill Farm -> Doctor Bridge -> Church House -> Li'l Ratty Station at Boot

This is a lovely walk along the river Esk then up very well made mining tracks past ruined mine workers' buildings and into the wilderness of Foxbield Moss where there isn't much to see but bog! By keeping to the edge of the bog it's possible to reach the little eminence of Green Crag with dry feet where it's possible to enjoy a picnic with views out to the coast and our old friend Seascale Nuclear Powerstation. The walk back is equally rewarding once you're over the heather covered crags. The walk along The Esk and over Doctor Bridge is stunning in evening light.

You can even take a ride on Li'l Ratty, the narrow gauge steam train that can take you out to Ravenglass on the coast. Well worth a go.