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Selside Pike - Branstree - Tarn Crag - Grey Crag

3rd September 2007

COMPLETION OF MY FAR EASTERN FELLS!
Finally... This is a walk I have been waiting to do for a long time... yet another region finished.. can't tell you how many times I have caught myself smiling away to myself these past two days just thinking about this...
I have broken this walk down into 3 pages, only because now we have a new camera I am getting more and more wonderful pictures that I just can't seem to leave out.
This web site has always been about me and my families love of walking, but has also really become a journal of how I became hooked on completing all 214 AW fells.
Many of the photo's below will be of little interest to anyone but our close friends and family - they are not of wonderful views, amazing places - they are of my children having a wonderful time keeping fit and experiencing something that I hope will stay with them forever.
I hope you, the general visitor will forgive me for so many such pictures.

From Mardale Head car park looking towards Gatesgarth pass on the left, through the fence and out of view.
Center of the picture is Mardale Ill Bell. .what a great name for a fell...

Haweswater, not something that looks man made is it??

Walking back along the road from the car park, towards where the old Corpse Road
comes down of the fell. Jay was dieing to get in the water and swim - NO dogs allowed in this reservoir.

This side of the gulley you can see is called Hollow Stone, the far side is High Loup, which would be our route up to Selside Pike

From just off the road looking towards Kidsty Pike

The forrest area is called 'The Rigg', which leads to Riggindale Crag.. and up onto High Street.
The area that leads from High Street to Kidsty Pike (the pointy one on the right) is called
'The Straits of Riggindale'.

Looking back along the road to the car park at Mardale Head

This was hard to get as the sun was directly over the hill behind this fall.
I have to tell you.. the name of this beck.. you ready...
Rowantreethwaite Beck ! .. say that when you are drunk...

Jay being impatient as usual..

This is the first ruin we came to, but there are more.

Kerenza, Kim and Charlie almost at the top of the steepest part of the climb up to Selside..
not there yet though..

Kidsty is directly above Charlies head.

Another ruin a little further up.

'Come on Dad.. stop taking so many photos.. just walk '

'Well I have my new 50-200m lens kids.. I have to try it out'.
Riggindale Valley from the Old Corpse road

This area is called High Lake Dodd acording to my map.. just below Selside.
We had cut across the moorland and headed staight up to the Pike, this was the view north.. which....

.. means this has to be Penrith.. we think...

Not the top of the Pike, still on the way up High Lake Dodd

Everest here they come... cough....

Bit hazy, but not bad from Selside to Kidsty Pike

The works at Junction 39 of the M6

Charlie and I walking towards Selside's summit

and again

Now then.. you know when something is hilarious when you are there,
but no matter how much you try and explain.. it gets lost on others...??
Kerenza's stick got stuck in the mud as she walked along, and as she pulled on it..
it came apart.. at the time.. very funny

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