Tuesday, 26 January 2021

A walk in the local fells

Bleasdale to Langden Castle via Fiendsdale Head, 12miles 2050ft      

Sunshine on Beacon fell

Beacon fell again

Looking across Bleasdale to Fairsnape and Parlick

Looking ahead to Fiendsdale Head

Fairsnape and Parlick again

Fairsnape again above the source of the River Brock

Looking back across the Lancashire plain to the coast

Field patterns in Bleasdale 

Descending Fiendsdale from the head of the valley

Langden Brook meandering down the valley....

....and the brook again up close

Time for lunch at Langden Castle

Finally passing the front of Bleasdale Hall on the return 



Monday, 4 January 2021

'Walking in a Winter Wonderland'

Boulsworth Hill & Lad Law from Wycoller, East Lancashire!

- 9miles 2000ft  

Looking through 'The Atom' (panoptican) to the Wycoller valley

Here's the atom but who stole the nucleus?

The packhorse bridge in the hamlet of Wycoller 

Looking across to Pendle hill from the Pennine bridleway 

 Being blown along the summit plateau by an icy wind

You're seldom alone on a summit despite the weather or perhaps
because of the weather

Dark skies over West Yorkshire

The appropriately named 'Weather Stones' between Boulsworth Hill
and Lad Law

The trig point on Lad Law today's highest point 517m - 1696ft
Pendle Hill on the horizon

Another view of West Yorkshire....almost in sunshine

The village of Trawden from the path back to Wycoller

Climbing back up to the parking area by the atom