Postponed Event: High Rigg
Cancelled: Irthing Gorge Lower Carboniferous
The organizer has returned from abroad today (16th) and recce the sites.
Wet clay makes scrambling up to the lower cliff faces not possible without ropes.
A large tree is fallen and blocking the path to the river shore which leads to the main view of a 40ft section of sequence. The river Irthing itself is swollen and the river bed geology not exposed.
At another site the path is deemed too slippery for members down to Crammel Linn waterfall. Similarly, the high volume of water is covering most exposures and sequences.Â
Considering the distance this locality is from most members with the decreased access and increased risk of injury from slips/trips/falls the organizer will cancel the event. We shall get our fix of Sulphur elixir another time.
Irthing Gorge Lower Carboniferous
Postponed Event: Irthing Gorge Lower Carboniferous
Event Reminder: Sale Fell
Date: Wednesday 13 July 2022
Time: 18:30
Leader: Phil Davies
Meet: NY 191301 roadside parking at minor road from Wythop Mill to Routenbeck / Pheasant Inn, 200m NE of Wythop St Margaret’s Church.
Around & over Sale Fell, grassy paths, overlooking Bassenthwaite. Medium walk. Skiddaw Group strata: steeply inclined bedding; major quartz veining evident (depending on exact route); water expulsion structures (if we can find them!); minette / lamprophyre intrusion (see The Cumberland Geologist No.2); folding / minor thrust structure. Discuss local geological structure – BGS mapping has a major tight anticline here. Can we spot any way-up structures (apart from the water expulsion ones)? (I doubt it!).