Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Three Shire Stone, Wrynose Pass (25%, 393 m.)

Exploring Dunnerdale via Wrynose Pass (25%, 393 m.). Dunnerdale upper valley is big and bleak, and today almost in the clouds, this is the west flank of The Old Man of Coniston (803 m.). There is so much moss and lichen in woods in the valley of the River Duddon below Froth Pot (falls) as to be almost cloud forest. The high slopes, previously forested with pines, are being replanted with deciduous trees but meanwhile there are views which have not been seen for many years.

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Wrynose Bottom and Cockley Beck Fell

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Cockley Beck Bridge (242 m.)

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Dale Head, Dunnerdale

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Woods above Seathwaite Bridge, so much moss and lichen they almost qualify as cloud forest

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Froth Pot, River Duddon

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
River Duddon

Dunnerdale, Cumbria

Dunnerdale, Cumbria
Setting off