Fisher Wife's Rake and the Fornside Peat Track
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We set off from Fornside on a grey and humid day
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climbing the steep field above the farm
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the view from the gate in the intake wall
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above the intake wall behind Beckthorns
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crossing the old weir in Beckthorns Gill
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above Bram Crag farm
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looking up Sandbed Gill
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Jo and Jodie crossing Sandbed Gill
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queuing at the stil into Lowthwaite quarries
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the big pool in the disused Lowthwaite quarries
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the abandoned quarries have been planted with conifers
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first sight of Fisher Wife's Rake and it starts to rain
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cows graze the old quarry workings
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Belncathra from above Spion Kop quarry
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time to take off the waterproofs
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doubling back above the intake wall
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on the traverse leading to Fisher Wife's Rake
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about to start the steep climb
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the steep start hugs the base of the cliffs
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Roger following the zig zag sled track
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is Ann glad she wasn't married to Mr Fisher?
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pause for photographs
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time to moisturise and repel the midges!
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approaching another scree gully
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Polly at the foot of a subsidiary gully which we didn't...
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are we nearly there yet?
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the worst is over we are about to reach the grass
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Roger posing just below our lunch spot
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Album Description:
A walk from Fornside, through Lowthwaite quarries and up Fisher Wife's Rake to Jim's Fold. Then to Clough Head, Calfhow Pike and down the Peat track back to Fornside.
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4 comments
Hi John, what a lovely and interesting walk. Would like to do that one. Frances
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induna103 2008.08.15 at 12:08:48 PDT
I'm surprised it has taken 12 years to do that one John, a really interesting walk. Two UWR's in one walk again...my turn to say that's on my list. Cheers, Andrew
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leftwinguk 2008.08.09 at 16:08:17 PDT
Yes please!!!!
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jaynehill 2008.08.08 at 13:12:11 PDT
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