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Torver Common

Walked on 29/02/2008

Start point: Delicars on the Torver road (SD 287 927)

Delicars – Torver Beck – Anne Riggs – Mill Bridge – Beckstones – Delicars

Distance: 2 miles     Total Ascent: 130 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour

Weather: Wind and heavy rain. 7°.

It was wet and wild this morning and there was no way I was going up on any fells! If it wasn’t for the ‘gruesome twosome’ needing a walk, I think I would have turned over and had another 40 winks. Instead, we had an exploration of Torver Common and there are some really fantastic views from here (in drier weather anyway) not 5 minutes from the road. I thought it best not to use my main camera given the extreme conditions, so I used a compact I have which at least allows some manual control. I have put some of the settings used on for those interested in photography as I often get asked about them.

Torver Common

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Casper waits patiently on the footbridge crossing Torver Beck.

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Torver Beck (f8, 1/5 sec).

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Torver Low Common.

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The disused reservoir on Torver Low Common. Who put those telegraph poles there?

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Angus and Casper above the reservoir. That looks like an interesting cairn on the prominence to the right named Anne Riggs on the map (f3.5, 1/25 sec).

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The reservoir.

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Heading for Anne Riggs (f7.1, 1/20 sec).

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The cairn on Anne Riggs looking to Beckstones and the Land Rover garage. This cairn is prominent from the road through the buildings and I have looked at it often but never visited it before. Above the buildings is Kelly Hall Tarn.

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Me and Yew?

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Mill Bridge in the pouring rain.

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Kelly Hall Tarn.

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The outflow (f7.1, 1/4 sec).

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A banzai photo into the gale force wind and rain, but what a view of Coniston Water from here (point and hope!).

 

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