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Photos of the Lake District

Here are various photographs (all in JPEG format) that the club has accumulated over time - please email Toby if you have any contributions - or if you can supply any of the missing credits.

There are photos of other areas, as well as pictures of people in the club.


In a blizzard [36.9K]
A blizzard on Skiddaw hides (L to R) Dom Strogen, Rachel Lovelock, George Sankey, Claire Gilbert, Peter Bell and Lottie Kelley.

[Toby Speight]

The Helvellyn range [292K]
The Helvellyn hills, seen from High Spy to the west.

[Toby Speight]

Snow scene near Black Sail [60K]
Peter and Lottie in the snow.

[Toby Speight]

Descending by moonlight [21.3K]
Peter and Lottie heading back home.

[Toby Speight]

Crinkle Gill [92.4K]
Scrambling in Langdale.

[Toby Speight]

Wetherlam in winter [39.4K]
Lottie and Pete properly equipped for real snow conditions on Wetherlam.

[Toby Speight]

Grey Friar [83.2K]
The misty summit of Grey Friar in winter.

[Marion McMillan]

Levens Water [67.2K]
Posing on a big stone above Levens Water.

[Marion McMillan]

Blencathra [41.1K]
Blencathra seen from Catbells in the morning.

[Toby Speight]

Stickle Tarn [197K]
Stickle Tarn and Pavey Ark, Langdale.

[Bernd Kaestner]

Wild Langdale [171K]
Moraine landscape near Langdale.

[Bernd Kaestner]

Feuerzangenbowle [276K]
Evening entertainment in the bunkhouse at Blea Tarn.

[Bernd Kaestner]

Boot from above the Eskdale Centre [189K]
The village of Boot, as visited on many January trips.

[Sarah Miller]

The Burnmoor Inn [45.4K]
The centre of social life in Eskdale.

[Yvonne Groot]

A snowy summit [57.8K]
Typical Eskdale weather.

[Yvonne Groot]

Hilary in snow [107K]
A president caught in action! Hilary McMillan demonstrates ice-axe arrest.

[Toby Speight]

Katherine Falconer [60.6K]
Katherine Falconer in front of Ennerdale water on the Ennerdale trip in February 1996.

[Toby Speight]

Ennerdale Water [65.5K]
This is the view from near the Ennerdale bunkhouse, looking north-east across the lake, with Great Borne behind

[Toby Speight]

Ennerdale, seen darkly through the trees [56.6K]
And Ennerdale itself, looking suitably gloomy.

[Toby Speight]

A Wasdale sunset [55.9K]
The end of a beautiful day, looking over Wast Water, after descending from a beautiful day's walk up Kirk Fell and Great Gable in the snow.

[Sarah Miller]

Grasmoor stands high above the rocky stream [30.6K]
When we reached Scales Force, Grasmoor dominated the view across the valley.

[Toby Speight]

Skiddaw and Newlands [66.3K]
This was the view northwards from the Red Pike ridge, north of Ennerdale.


View from Red Pike [61.3K]
Another view from Red Pike.


Bleaberry Tarn [97.4K]
Having a rest by Bleaberry Tarn (below Red Pike)

[Sarah Hammond]

The descent from Pillar [51.6K]
Descending from Pillar into Ennerdale .


Katherine, Toby and Sarah by a sign that now says 'Becky Smith Trail' [34.9K]
When we found this sign, it said Smithy Beck Trail; we couldn't resist changing it for Becky.

[Toby Speight]

Harter Fell summit [57.8K]
Some idiots (who will remain anonymous) climbed Harter Fell one dark night on the 1996 Eskdale trip.

[Toby Speight]

Birkhouse Moor [77.6K]
Helvellyn from Birkhouse Moor - Striding Edge is on the left.

[Keith Stribley]

Buttermere [33.2K]
Fleetwith Pike, seen across Buttermere.

[Lizzie Kennett]

Rannerdale [52K]
Bluebells in Rannerdale.

[Sarah Hammond]

Skiddaw [50.6K]
The summit area of Skiddaw.

[Keith Stribley]

Scafell Pike in snow conditions [70.1K]
Pete Wilson, Simon Molyneux, James Campbell and Jane Strange on Scafell Pike, January 1993.

[Toby Speight]

Toby Speight <cuhwc-web@gmx.net>

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