A photostory: hiking in Buttermere

30 June 2013

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This post is over 12 years old. This isn't necessarily expressed as well as I might do now, and I may well have changed a lot since.

But much betterwhen we got up onto Red Pike — But much better when we got up onto Red Pike

We stopped past the beautiful Scale Force

We had fun scrambling the airy "big walls" of Haystacks

And got great views down the length of Buttermere from the head of the valley

Climbing Grassmoor via Whiteless Pike gave us great views of the valley below

Whilst the summit of Grassmoor gave us great views of Hopegill Head

...and Crummock Water in the valley far below us.

Finally, a lamb grazes near fields of Bluebells in Rannerdale

We stayed at the Syke Farm Campsite in Buttermere.
More about The Lake District on Wikivoyage.

I shot with a Canon 5D mkII with a 24-105 f4.

All photos are “Copyright Tim Dobson 2013”, and are licenced under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0. Please attribute “Tim Dobson / tdobson.net” wherever you use them.

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