Two wet and wintery days in Borrowdale

Friday 2nd April 2010.
      We've just arrived home after spending 3 nights in Keswick in the Lake District in our motor home. Generally we're lucky with the weather but not this time it rained all day on our first walk and on the second day we had the snow, being on the edge of the wintery weather which effected Scotland and Ireland.Both our walks were fairly low level because of the low cloud on the first day and the snow on the second day

  The first walk was from Rosthwaite in Borrowdale via Watendlath tarn  following the valley down to Ashness Bridge and then back along the fell side to Keswick about 7.5 miles.

 

Rosthwaite in Upper Borrowdale

 

                 Watendlath, the view on many a calendar

                     Shepherds Crag overlooking Derwent Water

                      Ashness Bridge and in  the distance Skiddaw

                                        Golden Saxifrage

                                 Along the fellside back to Keswick

                 The high water mark of last autumns terrible floods

       Our second walk..... from Seatoller in Upper Borrowdale along the fell side back to Keswick about 9.5 miles.

  Our motorhome on the Caravanning and Camping Club Site at Keswick

 

                                          Above Seatoller 

                      Along the fell to Castle Crag  (centre distance)

                                 Rosthwaite in Upper Borrowdale

                                                Castle Crag

                                        Climbing Castle Crag

                                Upper Borrowdale from Castle crag

                      River Derwent and the Borrowdale Woods

                    A wintery scene looking across to the Cat Bells.

A few Shots from The Town Cass Keswick the following morning (Thurs 1st April)

                                         The Cat Bells