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| GUNNERSIDE BECK |
After a night and early morning of rain we ventured out for a hike. Drove to Gunnerside and did a loop 6 mile up Gunnerside Gill. A windy, cloudy dry start we passed many areas of remains of lead mining. Hard to imagine the lives led by the thousands of miners of the past. Walking to work in the black hours, morning and night, often wet through, tunneling in equally dark and wet conditions.
We enjoyed our lunch at the arches just before the heavens opened and we walked back in cold rain and wind. I tried to think of those poor miners but my fingers were so numb with cold Roy had to hold my poles while I put my hands in my pockets to thaw them out. Talk about sublime to ridiculous – as Roy said as it chucked it down – now this is an English summer!
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| VIEW THROUGH THE RUINS |
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| LUNCH ALMOST IN THE DRY |
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| THE LONELY HIKER ROY WITH BLUE SKIES BEHIND HIM |
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| BLACK CLOUDS AHEAD AGAIN |
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| GUNNERSIDE IN THE SUN ALMOST |
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