SATURDAY 21 AUGUST FELL END CLOUDS, RAVENSTONEDALE Leader Sylvia Woodhead
Meet at 10.30 am at Fell End Quarry on The Street just off A683, NY 734006 c. 5 km walk over upland
limestone country, looking at the effect of the Dent Line on limestone scenery.
Parts of the walk are on steep and rocky ground which can be slippery when wet. It is an upland area which may be windy and exposed. A leaflet about the geology of the area will be available on the day.
SATURDAY 21 AUGUST FELL END CLOUDS, RAVENSTONEDALE Leader Sylvia Woodhead
Meet at 10.30 am at Fell End Quarry on The Street just off A683, NY 734006 c. 8 km walk over upland
limestone country, looking at the effect of the Dent Line on limestone scenery.
Meet at 6.00 pm Cockermouth School lay by/car park NY 130310
Details and notes to follow
Meet at 6.00 pm Cockermouth School lay by/car park, western end, NY 130310
We will examine small outcrops of the Ordovician Watch Hill Formation within the Skiddaw Group and intrusive diorite bodies that are dotted about the fell. Watch Hill is a lovely walk on a summer evening and a good vantage point to view the landscape of the northern Lake District as well as towards limestone country.
Easy, lower half day or continue for a strenuous full day.
Meet at 10.00 am at Uzzicar, in Newlands by the site of the old Barrow Mine NY 232217.
Participants will have the option of a half day excursion of 2 km of walking and 150 m of ascent or continuing on the full day fairly strenuous trip of 6 km of walking and about 500 m of ascent. If the weather is poor the trip will be half a day at the lower localities which are on good tracks, footpaths and on steep stream sides. The higher localities are on a fell walk of paths, tracks and rocky sections.
The trip has several aims: to show the olistostromic Buttermere Formation and Robinson Member of the Skiddaw Group, the normal siltstone facies of the Skiddaw Group (Kirkstile Slates) and its alteration by hornfelsing, and thrusting of the hornfelsed strata over unaltered rock. We will visit turbidite sequences with good way-up evidence plus inverted and right way-up strata.
The planned event around Pooley Bridge is still on but the second part involving a meal at a local inn cannot now take place for reasons beyond our control. The programme is now as follows.
Meet at Dunmallard car park 6pm (allow enough time to find alternative parking in the vicinity if Dunmallard is full).
Take activity sheet and follow instructions. The itinerary involves walking on easy ground for no more than a total of c. 800-900m.
Convene at Chestnut House yard by 7pm. Chestnut House shop will be open and take-away drinks and light refreshments will be available. A review of the exercise will be done (answers) re. local geology.
There will be then be a brief ceremony to make presentations to Margaret Bennett and Dai Powell who have both been long-serving officers of CGS.This part will conclude at 7.30 pm and it may be that members attending may want to make their own arrangements for a drink/meal locally. It has not been possible to make a party booking in Pooley Bridge but there are 3 places that will be open in the village on a walk-in basis.
We hope to see as many members as possible for this mixed evening event but be aware that it may be weather affected and suitable clothing or an umbrella is advised.
John RodgersÂ
President CGS
