Seathwaite Farm - the notice on the door says that the tea room is closed AGAIN this season!
Heading for Sourmilk Gill which appears to have plenty of water coming down after heavy rain overnight
An awkward ladder stile for the dogs
Not so hard for Jo
Ann and Jo starting the climb up the side of Sourmilk Gill
Ruth approaching the lower falls
the lower falls
Polly by the upper falls of Sourmilk Gill, Seathwaite
Starting the climb up Base Brown. We are headed for the right hand gully with a perched boulder at the top.
We climbed the grass and rock gully on the right - harder than it looked from here!
Looking down to Borrowdale from the foot of the gully on Base Brown
The start of the rock steps in the gully
Polly is first to the perched boulder
Ann looks as if she is expecting something bad to happen! Note, in the distance are the "Seathwaite Slabs" on which we would scramble on our way back to the valley.
Jo giving an idea of the size of the boulder
Base Brown summit - we stopped for lunch just beyond the summit
Esk Pike and Great End from Base Brown
Dropping down to the hause before the climb up to Green Gable. We turned right at the hause and dropped into Gillercomb.
At the far end of Gillercomb we opted not to return down Sourmilk Gill but headed for Seathwaite slabs
Looking down Seathwaite Slabs
Roger and Jo and Amber on Seathwaite Slabs
scrambling up the lower slabs
Jo leads up the upper slabs and Ruth gives Jodie a push!
Heading for the plumbago mines above Seathwaite.
Roger on a spoil heap above the plumbago mines
Looking down on Seathwaite from the mines
heading down into the old mine workings
A mine entrance
Ruth does a bit of exploring. Plumbao is the "black lead" used in pencil making and it was the local plumbago which turned Keswick into the main maufacturer of pencils in the world for many years.
Back in Seathwaite - these sheep were walking on top of the walls. No wonder the walls are always falling down!
