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" Cathy and Mark's Visit "

Date & start time:      18th January 2025, and subsequent days.

Location of Start :     Felldyke car park, Lamplugh, Cumbria, Uk. ( NY 085 198 )

Places visited :          Cogra Moss, Loweswater and Spout Force.

Walk details :            2.75 mls, 150 ft of ascent, an hour or so morning walk.

Highest point :           Finding the round walk now completed.

Walked with :            Cathy and Mark, Chris, Myself and Dougal.

                                  James, Clare, Junior and Jacob. (Loweswater garden)

Weather :                  Taken a dive after the recent sunny weather.

                     

                     

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My daughter Cathy and her partner Mark, after walking with her friends Jude and Jo yesterday, have travelled up to the Lakes to spend a few days here at the cottage.

Sadly Loes's knee, which was badly swollen and prevented her joining the Barley walk, is still bad and she wasn't able to join in today either.

Cathy and Mark wanted a different walk from normal, so we drove over to Felldyke Village and Cogra Moss, stopping on the way to pick up Chris and his retriever Bracken.

Cathy, Mark and myself on the Cogra Moss Round.

But I get ahead of myself . . .

When Cathy had arrived, the weather had changed and the mountains had disappeared.
Still, next day the weather was little better and we did have the chance to get out.
   

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We decided upon Cogra Moss,

a low level walk that they hadn't done before.

 

On the way across we called in at Lamplugh

where Chris decided to join us for a walk,

so it was with two retrievers today, Dougal and Bracken,

that four of us set off on a low level circuit of Cogra Moss lake.

 

The nice thing about the walk was that in recent weeks

the National Park had completed their planned access path all around the lake.

Up till now the back section was still a muddy track.

Now with the two ends of the gravel path joined

it has become an all weather, wheel chair friendly path

that fully circumnavigates the lake.

 

 

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Not too many photos today, but this was the view from about two thirds of the way round.

On the far side of the lake is Knock Murton and Low Pen / High Pen, which is climbed should you climb Blake Fell summit from the west.

The missing section of the lower path below Low Pen is now leveled, drained and surfaced.

Despite the cool, damp weather Dougal still wanted a swim in the lake . . . no anglers today so no problems keeping the dogs away from fishing lines.

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That afternoon friends James and Clare had arranged to come over with their boys.
Jacob and Junior had a go at wood chopping.

Between the four of us we half filled the woodshed with cut wood, which was brilliant.

The boys had a go at the felling axe under Mark's supervision and chain sawing under mine.

My log-horse has a captive saw attachment which makes it much easier and notably much safer to use, even for young lads !

Supper had to be a mighty plateful of Cumberland Sausage and Mash of course !

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On Cathy's second day the clouds were down again so we had a short walk up onto Scale Hill

The views were not exactly spectacular !

Still. by the time we got down to the Boathouse on Crummock

the clouds had lifted and were producing some quite interesting effects within the valley.

Down at the beach at the foot of the lake now . . . but no sign of Great Gable at the head of the valley.

The weir at Crummock with Mellbreak behind.

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A few days later after Cathy and Mark had headed back to Suffolk, I took Dougal for a dog walk up to Spout Force Waterfall.

This was Scawgill Bridge, looking back soon after parking the car.

The felled forestry makes the campsite a lot less an attractive place to stay overnight

but there's still plenty of potential to make a daytime den from the cut brash the foresters had left behind.

The steep climb to the viewing platform is becoming more established once again.
The platform gives the only view of the falls, unless you wade up the river !

Turning to walk back down to the car. I didn't know it at the then, but in just a few days time

I'd be back here, walking the path that crosses the valley and climbing Graystones, the summit at the top of the steep slope to the right.

Pictures to follow soon.

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Technical note: Pictures taken with my iPhone 11pro mobile phone camera.

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Previous walk - 16th January 2025 - Jude's Barley Round

A previous time up here - 12th August New Access at Cogra Moss

Next event - 23rd January 2025 - Loweswater's Burns Supper 2025