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**Andy** @ExYZed · Feb 13, 2024

Business as usual with the Lake District weather this afternoon. Drizzle, dull skies, & clag. Sunday's wonderful afternoon light was but a memory.

Today's excursion: a relatively low level 7+ mile circular route from Tarn Hows, taking in Black Crag & Holme Fell. The latter, though the highest point on the route, is only 317m, yet was still shrouded in low cloud, & the descent was not straightforward for this first time visitor.

Still, wouldn't have changed a thing!

The view from Black Crag. In the foreground a pillar sits atop the rocky peak; metres away a dry stone wall is straddled by a ladder like stile.

On the other side of the wall the trees lean to the right, reshaped by the perennial battering of the winds. The low clouds seem to hem in the landscape.

The path descending from the summit of Holme Fell, flanked by rocky outcrops; the skeletons of leaf-less trees stand out starkly against the washed out, spectral light & low mist.

A wild looking Lakeland landscape. The rocky foreground frames the simple, white washed farmhouse in the distance. The skies are ominous, with threatening dark grey clouds as far as the eye can see.

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Feb 13, 2024

Andy @ExYZed@cupoftea.social

Not sure if the word 'clag' is peculiar to northern England, but folk hereabouts would certainly need to have invented the word if it didn't already exist.

Regardless, there sure was a lot in this part of north western England today!