Western Lakes, Wastwater and Ennerdale - Val Corbett Photography

Haaf Netting for salmon, Solway Firth

Gallery - Western Lakes, Wastwater and Ennerdale

The most spectacular mountain scenery lies in the west of the Lake District, where the highest mountain, Scafell Pike towers over Wastwater. Great Gable, with its famous rock climbs is a favourite mountain for many people. Wasdale tiny Church, St Olaf's, has many interesting gravestones of mountaineers, and a lovely small memorial window. Eskdale, to the south of Wasdale is unspoilt.The small village of Boot is near terminus of 'La'al Ratty', a narrow guage railway that starts at Ravenglass on the coast and passes through Eskdale Green. Ennerdale is one of the quietest lakes. Pleasant walks on forestry commission tracks lead along the lake to the remote youth hostel of Black Sail, overlooked by Pillar mountain.

Wastwater

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Dramatic cloudscape capping the Screes
Crummock Water, south from Hause Point

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Red Pike, High Crag and High Stile on the right
Great Gable

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Remembrance Sunday service on the summit
Crummock Water

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Grasmoor seen reflected from Hause Point
Cloud inversion

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Cloud inversion
Cloud inversion

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From Red Screes with Harter Fell, Eskdale, in the distance
Wasdale

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Sheep crossing Packhorse bridge at Wasdale Head, Kirk Fell behind
Oak tree in winter

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Solitary sunlit tree near the shore of Buttermere
Oak tree in winter

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Solitary sunlit tree near the shore of Buttermere
Wastwater

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Snow dusts the northern slopes of the peaks at the head of the valley
Loweswater and Grassmoor

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Snow coats the upper slopes in dramatic evening sun
Crummock Water

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