Lords Seat & Mam Tor in the Peak District National Park

Setting off from Edale towards the Lords Seat ridge

Crossing the Hope Valley railway

 Looking across the valley to Crowden Brook

The view east from Lords Seat summit 540m (1772ft) 

Mam Tor above the road pass to Chapel-en-le-Frith 

The hamlet of Barber Booth below

The view up the valley to Kinder Scout....

 ...and down the valley to Stannedge Edge

Mam Tor above the pass

 Looking towards Castleton in the Hope valley...

...and zooming in on Castleton

The very popular Mam Tor (mother hill) summit 517m (1696ft)

Looking further along the ridge to Hollins Cross

Back at the start at Edale station

Cunswick Scar and Scout Scar - Kendal

Looking over Kendal to the Howgill fells

Zooming in on the Kentmere valley north of Staveley

Crossing the A591 Kendal bypass

Looking north from the 'Mushroom Shelter' on Scout Scar

The 'Mushroom Shelter'

The view north along the edge of Scout  Scar

Arnside Knott with the railway viaduct just visible

Coniston Old Man with Dow Crag behind

St John the Evangelist churchyard at Helsington

Early bluebells near Natland

Ahhhh....

The River Kent, with icicles, at Hawes Bridge, Natland.

Dow Crag from Seathwaite in the Duddon valley

Setting off from the pretty little village of Seathwaite

Looking back down the Duddon Valley

Seathwaite tarn

Caw fell 529m (1735ft)

Many people coming off Coniston Old Man

 Goat's water and Dow Crag screes

The summit of Dow Crag 778m (2552ft)

Goat's water with the summit of Coniston Old Man above
803m (2634ft)

The Scafells in cloud (left) with Great End and Bow fell

Zooming in across the valley to the summit cairn of  Coniston Old Man

Looking north to Skiddaw in the far distance

Goat's Water far below Buck Pike

Seathwaite village in the Duddon valley

One of the many gullies on Dow Crag 

Blind Tarn at which Harry Griffin and his Coniston Tigers had their rock climbing base

The river Duddon back at Seathwaite

Hebden Bridge to Littleborough via Stoodley Pike

Hebden Bridge at the start of the climb

The remnants of the recent heavy snowfall

Stoodley Pike

Part of Pennine way leading to the top

Todmorden in the Calder valley below the pike

The village of Makinholes with Todmorden behind

A blot on the landscape? 

A frozen Blackstone edge reservoir

The White House pub and the A58 to Rochdale