http://becausetheyrethere.com ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:44:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://becausetheyrethere.com http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/05/green-hurth-where-the-big-wheel-turns/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/05/green-hurth-where-the-big-wheel-turns/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2014 07:30:25 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8118 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/08/05/green-hurth-where-the-big-wheel-turns/feed/ 36 McEff Green Hurth 1 green hurth 34 Green Hurth 2 Green Hurth 3 This building is believed to have been the powder house. It is situated a fair distance from the rest of the mine for safety reasons Green Hurth 5 The remains of Swan's Shaft. The hole was originally 231ft deep One of the ruined buildings at Swan???s Shaft has a slot in the wall that has been blocked up. Perhaps a winding cable or machinery belts once passed through it. That???s just a guess, by the way Green Hurth 8 Green Hurth 9 Green Hurth 36 Green Hurth 37 green hurth 35 Concrete engine beds for a steam engine at the top of Swan???s Shaft Green Hurth 15 Green Hurth 14 Green Hurth 16 Green Hurth 17 Green Hurth 18 An old level, or tunnel, beneath the spoil heaps A bundle of buddles ??? or what's left of them . . . Piece of a 19th Century bottle Green Hurth 20 Green Hurth 22 Green Hurth 23 Green Hurth 24 Green Hurth 26 Green Hurth 27 Entrance to the main level. No room for a horse these days View from the main level. This is what the miners would see after a day's work underground Green Hurth 28 Green Hurth 31 The old tramway from Swan's Shaft to the main mine Green Hurth 33 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/07/30/the-environment-is-positively-charged/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/07/30/the-environment-is-positively-charged/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:00:57 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8110 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/07/30/the-environment-is-positively-charged/feed/ 14 McEff pylon ladder http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/07/07/black-combe-on-the-edge-of-a-circle/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/07/07/black-combe-on-the-edge-of-a-circle/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:00:53 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8062 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/07/07/black-combe-on-the-edge-of-a-circle/feed/ 23 McEff Black Combe 1 Black Combe 2 Black Combe 5 Black Combe 6 Black Combe 3 Black Combe 4 Black Combe 7 Black Combe 8 Black Combe 9 Black Combe 10 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/06/21/what-does-adventure-mean-to-you/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/06/21/what-does-adventure-mean-to-you/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:31:35 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=8004 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/06/21/what-does-adventure-mean-to-you/feed/ 47 McEff adventure 1 adventure 2 adventure 4 Beacon 1 caw 4 glyder 1 arieiro 1 adventure 3 adventure 6 adventure 8 adventure 7 The summit of Mulhacen, the highest mountain in Spain Lucero 26 Creag Leacach1 Mourne 25 Slieve Muck 22 The slabby crags of the Devil's Point at the head of Glen Dee Arieiro 7 glencoe 7 adventure xz http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/23/cross-fell-fiends-rivers-paths-and-poets/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/23/cross-fell-fiends-rivers-paths-and-poets/#comments Fri, 23 May 2014 08:00:37 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7893 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/23/cross-fell-fiends-rivers-paths-and-poets/feed/ 24 McEff Cross Fell 7 Cross Fell 2 Cross Fell 4 Cross Fell 3 Cross Fell 5 The first glimpse of Cross Fell, with its covering of cloud A mile or two on and the cloud is lifting Cross Fell 3a Cross Fell 9 Cross Fell 10 Cross Fell 11 Cross Fell 12 Cross Fell 13 Cross Fell 14 Ancient and modern. Looking from an old cairn on Cross Fell towards Little Dun Fell and Great Dunn Fell with its radar station. Great Dunn Fell is the second-highest mountain in the Pennines. According to Wikipedia, ???a randome containing primary surveillance radar (PSR) and secondary surveillance radar (SSR) antennae, various towers and fencing crown the summit???. So now you know The view towards Cow Green reservoir Cross Fell 17 Cross Fell 18 Cross Fell 19 Cross Fell 20 Cross Fell 21 Cross Fell 22 Cross Fell 24 Cross Fell 25 Traps like this are all over the place in this part of the Pennines. Their function is to kill predators that prey on grouse, so that rich people will have plenty of birds to blast out of the sky when the shooting season starts. I phtographed this one because it has an egg on it. We can but speculatee where the egg came from Cross Fell 27 Cross Fell 26 Cross Fell 28 Cross Fell 29 Cross Fell 30 Cross Fell 32 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/09/old-roads-a-fallen-lady-st-jude-and-thoughts-for-the-day/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/09/old-roads-a-fallen-lady-st-jude-and-thoughts-for-the-day/#comments Fri, 09 May 2014 07:00:42 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7827 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/05/09/old-roads-a-fallen-lady-st-jude-and-thoughts-for-the-day/feed/ 28 McEff cow green 1 cow green 3 cow green 4 cow green 2 cow green 5 cow green 6 cow green 7 cow green 8 cow green 9 The collapsed shaft is the black hole, which now has a wall around it to prevent animals and people meeting a terrible end. The steam engine would have been situated on the foundations to the right of the picture and would have worked the pump at the foot of the shaft by a system of reciprocating rods, probably with an ???angle bob??? ??? to convert the horizontal motion to vertical motion ??? at the shaft collar. There would also have been a means of hauling materials up the shaft, though this is not immediately obvious. The main adit level at Green Hurth Mine. Whereas the pumping shaft appears to have worked the lead veins beneath ground level, this tunnel appears to have been the main access to the working in the hillside above. Water still drains from the tunnel mouth. The headwaters of the River Tees. The mountain in the background is Cross Fell, which at 2,930ft (893m) is the highest peak in the Pennines and the highest peak in England outside the Lake District cow green 13 The old road veers off the A6277 cow green 15 cow green 16 cow green 17 cow green 18 cow green 19 cow green 20 cow green 21 cow green 25 cow green 26 cow green 22 cow green 27 cow green 28 cow green 29 cow green 30 cow green 31 cow green 32 cow green 33 cow green 34 cow green 35 cow green 36 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/04/08/days-like-this-no-4-before-night-at-beacon-tarn/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/04/08/days-like-this-no-4-before-night-at-beacon-tarn/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:00:32 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7596 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/04/08/days-like-this-no-4-before-night-at-beacon-tarn/feed/ 25 McEff Beacon 1 Beacon 2 Beacon 4a Beacon 4 Beacon 5 Beacon 6 Beacon 7 Beacon 8 Beacon 9 Beacon 10 Beacon 11 Beacon 12 Beacon 13 Beacon 14 Gordon Vero Carey, by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd), June 2 1927. With kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place London, WC2H OHE http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:00:40 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/feed/ 35 McEff caw 6 caw 1 caw 2 caw 5 caw 3 caw 4 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/17/going-to-california-via-teesdale/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/17/going-to-california-via-teesdale/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:00:37 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7530 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/17/going-to-california-via-teesdale/feed/ 27 McEff Hudes Hope 1 Hudes Hope 2 Hudes Hope 3 Hudes Hope 4 Hudes Hope 5 Hudes Hope 6 Hudes Hope 25 Hudes Hope 24 Hudes Hope 7 Hudes Hope 10 Hudes Hope 8 Hudes Hope 9 Hudes Hope 13 Hudes Hope 12 Hudes Hope 11 Hudes Hope 14 Hudes Hope 15 Hudes Hope 16 East Rake Hushes above Great Eggles Hope. Hushes were opencast workings that were carved out by torrents of water diverted along the course of the mineral veins ??? hence the reservoirs on the tops of the fells. The exposed ground was then exploited by miners. Then more water was channelled down and more ground exploited Hudes Hope 18 Hudes Hope 19 Hudes Hope 20 Hudes Hope 21 Hudes Hope 22 Hudes Hope 23 Hudes Hope 26 Hudes Hope 27 Coldberry Gutter, at Hudes Hope, one of the deepest hushes in the area This entrance to Lodgesike Mine, at Hudes Hope, has been walled up to protect the curious from themselves Hudes Hope 30 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/01/29/blue-pie-thinking-on-fremington-edge/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/01/29/blue-pie-thinking-on-fremington-edge/#comments Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:18:22 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7285 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/01/29/blue-pie-thinking-on-fremington-edge/feed/ 30 McEff Fremington 1 Fremington 2 hurst1 Fremington 4 Fremington 5 Fremington 6 Engine beds that were built to accommodate what was probably a horizontal steam engine. But I'm just guessing here. The big hole behind is the collapsed shaft it served Fremington 7 Fremington 8 Fremington 9 Fremington 11 Fremington 10 Fremington 12 Fremington 19 Fremington 20 Fremington 17 Fremington 13 Fremington 14 Fremington 15 Fremington 18 Fremington 21 Fremington 22 Fremington 24 Fremington 23 Fremington 26 Fremington 27 Fremington 25 Fremington 28 pie 2 pie 1 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/31/coniston-old-man-backwards-and-forwards/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/31/coniston-old-man-backwards-and-forwards/#comments Tue, 31 Dec 2013 06:00:10 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7152 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/31/coniston-old-man-backwards-and-forwards/feed/ 27 McEff Coniston old man 1 The view across Levers Water to Swirl How This is a bit of an odd one. The black hole in the centre of the picture is the entrance to the Hospital Level, one of the higher entrances into the Coniston copper mines, situated at the side of the beck that runs out of Levers Water. The mines date from the early Elizabethan period ??? some evidence suggest Roman times ??? to the 1950s. Another world exists inside the Hospital Level. To crawl through that hole is like Lucy poking through the back of the wardrobe. But a bit wetter and dirtier. And there are no fauns. At least I???ve never seen any Coniston old man 4 I've still got that anorak. Tried to give it to my son but he just laughed Coniston old man 7 Coniston old man 8 Coniston old man 9 Coniston old man 10 Coniston old man 11 Don't know what happened to that hat. People don't wear them now. Perhaps it's just as well it's 2014 tomorrow http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/18/on-the-tide-line-but-not-quite-washed-up/ http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/18/on-the-tide-line-but-not-quite-washed-up/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:00:14 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7111 Continue reading →]]> http://becausetheyrethere.com/2013/12/18/on-the-tide-line-but-not-quite-washed-up/feed/ 53 McEff Lowsy 1 map thing Lowsy 22 Lowsy 3 Lowsy 23 Lowsy 4 Lowsy 2 Lowsy 16 Lowsy 5 Lowsy 6 Lowsy 7 Lowsy 8 Lowsy 9 Lowsy 10 Lowsy 11 Lowsy 19 Lowsy 19a Lowsy 19b Lowsy 12 Lowsy 13 Lowsy 14 Lowsy 15 Lowsy 18 Lowsy 20 Lowsy 21 Lowsy 24 Lowsy 25 Lowsy 26 Lowsy 27 Lowsy 28 Lowsy 17