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 . . .
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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.
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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
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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.