Sunday 5th
7.45 am. Coniston sky
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9.0 am. folk are about, in Lake Road
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the village from The Banks
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a small Blue Tit keeping an eye on things
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across the lake, Brantwood
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Yewdale and Guards Wood with some mist
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11.0 am. ice at the head of Coniston
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the Ambleside fells from Hawkshead Hill
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the gritting wagons have done a good job over here, and a bit of sunshine is helping
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Rydal, at Nab Cottage
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a different world, there's no snow in Keswick, it's a Spring day here.
Saturday 4th
The Ruskin Museum, 9.0 am. starting a walk to Elterwater
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onto the bridlepath through Low Yewdale
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Low Yewdale
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towards the Tilberthwaite road end
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ice at Shepherd's Bridge
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ice on Yew Tree Tarn
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now, there's just one Swan
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tiny flecks of snow on a cobweb
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over Oxen Fell to Low Colwith, the snow has started now
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at Elterwater, we catch the bus to Dungeon Ghyll (it's warmer in here than waiting for it to return), to Ambleside
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Raven Crag as the bus waits at the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel entrance
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1.15 pm. Elterwater Common now looking wintery
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in Ambleside, a 555 bus to Keswick is running, but ours to Hawkshead and Coniston is cancelled !
we start walking to keep warm
St Mary's Ambleside, and a sledge
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rescued and taken back home by 'our youngest', in his all-wheel-drive Subaru. What a star.
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8.0 pm. A winter wonderland, no vehicles whatsoever, past the petrol station in Coniston.
Friday 3rd
Pier Cottage entrance, sheep are running, they think I am the farmer
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at High Cross, snow on The Old Man
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a frozen water bucket
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9.0 am.
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towards Wansfell Pike from Hawkshead Hill
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10.0 am. high cloud spreading over Coniston from the west
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at the kissing gate, Orrest Head
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above Windermere
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over Troutbeck and The Hundreds Road, Red Screes. 1.0 pm. the weather has turned hazy.
Thursday 2nd
Frosty, Tilberthwaite Ghyll this morning
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a circular walk around the ghyll, looking down on High Tilberthwaite
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in the old quarries, a group of outdoor persuiters testing their rope skills, and I bet, their cold hands
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on the path
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Wetherlam comes into view
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at the top of the ghyll, Crook Beck
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frosty
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Froswick and Ill Bell
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we are being watched, on the way down.
Wednesday 1st February
9.0 am. On the Broughton Moor road, climbing up from Torver to Broughton Mills
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following the river Lickle up the forest track to Caw Moss
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colourful Larch below The Knott
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White Pike way above
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up here, all is frozen
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the impressive footbridge onto Caw Moss
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Torvill & Dean would happy up here, with the wind-chill, it's more like -7C
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on Caw Moss, a panorama: Harter Fell Scafell, Scafell Pike, Broad Crag and Ill Crag, coming round to Esk Pike, all with a fair bit of snow
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closer-up on Scafell
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Dunnerdale
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Dow Crag 'from the rear' with the Walna Scar track snaking down to Seathwaite.
Tuesday 31st
11.30 am. Poor visiblity on Adelaide Hill, snow on Red Screes in the gloom
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a Windermere Launch heading for Waterhead
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'Miss Cumbria' with a few passengers on the upper deck braving the cold
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Windermere Steamboat Museum
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a rare sight; the Rayrigg Road car park nearly empty
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t' Hole in t' Wall
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The Old England Hotel & Spa
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Bowness, The Glebe
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Crag Brow
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we're in the World of Beatrix Potter
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which is at the moment having a facelift.
