Cumbria Naturally
  • Home
  • Blog
  • My Books
    • Cumbrian Contrasts
    • A Lakeland Experience >
      • Introduction
      • Derwent
      • Langdale
      • Ullswater
      • Kentdale
    • About Scout Scar
    • Atlantic Odyssey
  • Other Writing
    • What Larks!
    • Further - Explore Shetland
    • Autumn Migration
    • Rydal and Nab Scar
    • Perspectives
    • The River Kent
    • Wings
  • Gallery
  • Contact

Far Easedale, Calf Crag, Gibson Knott, Helm Crag

7/10/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture5 October 2017
Becks  brim-full , Sour Milk Gill a cascade of whiteness and every waterfall that ever flows pouring off the fells- rainbow in water droplets,  rock gleaming wet.  Up into Far Easedale, looking  into  sunlit waterfalls, by the tarn at Brownrigg Moss, over Calf Crag, Gibson Knott, Helm Crag - the sun gleaming off Easedale Tarn and threads of light on the meandering beck down in the dale.  A wondrous day.


It’s a different perspective, this clock-wise route up Far Easedale.   A great boulder, crested with a stone wall, never noticed that before.  Familiar sheepfolds beside Far Easedale Beck. Looking back down the dale,  the meandering beck gleams.
The Fall, the coming of autumn, is more than the woods and falling leaves. There's the fall of water off the fells and down into the dales.  The fall of autumn colouring a peat landscape of  cols, wet hollows and sumps where cotton grass, deer grass and mosses take on the  deep red tints of October, beside tarns where blue sky reflects, for a moment, in intense colour.
Perspectives on a sweep of fells, in sunlight and in deep shadow. 
It's a day of sensation: warm sunlight, sound of wind through moorland grasses, tumbling cascades, squelch of saturated ground beneath our feet, and all around us the becks and stone walls illuminated by the sun.  
.
From the ridge,  approaching  Helm Crag, we look down on Easedale Tarn ( top right) ,  sunlit, shadowed, and the network of gleaming becks in Far Easedale.  Left of centre, this image shows Stythwaite Steps crossing the beck. When the light is strong and there's so much water in the landscape it's fun match image to map and retrace our footsteps.

Picture
We gathered in awe beside the waterfall.  Force- a waterfall.  My video is full of sound and power- of wind and water.  The image gives the scene a calmness and tranquillity.
Picture
Thanks to Hilary for a memorable walk on a splendid autumn day.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author

    Jan Wiltshire is a nature writer living in Cumbria. She also explores islands and coast and the wildlife experience. (See Home and My Books.)

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    September 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    November 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    April 2010
    January 2010
    November 2009
    January 2009
    January 2004

    Categories

    All
    A Local Patch
    Birdlife
    Butterflies And Moths
    Flowers
    Locations
    Views
    Walks
    Weather
    WIldlife

    RSS Feed

Website
Home
Blog
Gallery
Contact



​Cookie Policy
My Books
  • Intro - My books
  • ​Cumbrian Contrasts
  • A Lakeland Experience
  • About Scout Scar
  • Atlantic Odyssey
    ​
Other Writing
  • Intro - Other Writing
  • What Larks!
  • Further - Explore Shetland
  • Autumn Migration
  • Rydal and Nab Scar
  • Perspectives
  • The River Kent
  • Wings
Jan Wiltshire - Cumbria Naturally
© Jan Wiltshire 2019 All rights reserved
Website by Treble3