Category Archives: Tarns

Days Like This, No 20: Glimpses on Gable

Posted on May 15, 2015 by

EARLY morning on the South Traverse. The southern crags of Great Gable soak up sunlight. Rocks are warm to the touch beneath their volcanic tuff roughness and crumbly lichen. In the air, the bleat of a distant ewe and the … Continue reading →

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Days Like This, No 19: Pillar and the Rock

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

HOT sun on the back of the legs. Dust inside socks. Warm breeze drifting from the Irish Sea and stirring dry grasses. The magnificence of Pillar rising from the green of Mosedale into a flawless sky. Days like this were … Continue reading →

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Days Like This, No 18: A Dip in Goat???s Water

Posted on April 9, 2015 by

WE British are collectors of junk and tickers of lists. Men in particular, if left unmolested, will amass sheds full of lawnmower parts, used spark-plugs, obsolete tools and jars of reclaimed nuts and bolts just in case the unforeseen occurs … Continue reading →

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