Yesterday Tom went to the Windermere Air Festival with friends and we took the opportunity to do our favourite walk around Dubbs reservoir.. We do this walk a lot but we never get tired of it as there is always something new to make it interesting. As we climbed up from Limefitt Park the [...]
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We are just 3 miles from Ambleside, Windermere and Bowness but we are in the delightful Troutbeck valley – a world away from the bustle of the major towns. There is some fantastic walking that you can do straight from the lodge door and we even provide downloadable GPS maps to help you [...] Happy New Year to all our friends out there. As a special new Year treat I am bringing you an article that I found in the nether reaches of the internet. Enjoy! Dog Friendly Pubs in the Lake District Cumbria is a great place for dogs. Wherever you to, you’ll see visitors and [...] We’re quite excited to have found an app for the Iphone that makes great use of the built in GPS. It’s called EveryTrail. We have added one of our local walks to it today! Here is a link to it. Threshthwaite Mouth [...] I took Suki round Ing Bridge yesterday for the first time for a while. Recently we’ve all been a bit pre-occupied with getting the new Lodge, Troutbeck View, up and running, so it was good to get out even though it was a bit overcast. The hedgerows seem to have erupted since I was [...] Ok , so it’s not exactly the White Nile, but an expedition to see where the beck begins its journey had been on my list of walks to to do for some time now. I set of on Thursday morning bright and early armed with a rucksack full of wet/cold weather clothes, map, compass [...] I’ve had an outstanding task for a few months now since I told www.walkingworld.com that I’d add a circular walk up from Troutbeck up to Orrest Head. This is a lovely gentle walk up tothe top of one of the lowest fells in the Lakes. At only just over 750 feet it hardly qualifies [...] We just got back from a fantastic Easter weekend in the Lakes. I managed to wangle a couple of extra days by claiming that I had things to do…. I took the chance to go up to Dubbs with Suki again. As you can see thay have worked hard at repairing the damage done [...] Fantastic news this morning that Dubbs Reservoir, between Ings and Troutbeck, on the fell side just above our Lake District pine lodges has been reborn as a haven for wildlife. Dubbs Reservoir – A New Conservation Area The reservoir used to be an important water source but had fallen into disuse in recent [...] Many years ago I read a science fiction story by Robert Heinlein called “The Door into Summer”. I was reminded of this today when I came across this gate which looked up at the perfect blue sky that made walking today such a perfect Lake District experience. The door into summer Somehow it [...] |
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