OS Map of Fell Head

The edge of the Howgills.

Heading back down to the car after our walk up to Fell head.

10-May-23 • A tramp in the hills • flickr

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12-Jul-20 • ms6282 • flickr

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From Top to Bottom

As we headed north from Calders over Bram Rigg Top to The Calf, our high point of the day, the weather closed in and the rain started. Fortunately, as we descended White Fell to Chapel Beck, things improved

20-Oct-19 • RoystonVasey • flickr

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Fell Head (640m)

26-Jul-19 • clivenorton • flickr

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Foot of Black Force, Carlin Gill, Howgill Fells, Yorkshire Dales National Park near Tebay, Cumbria, UK

Another old favourite/adversary – the number of times I've failed to visually separate that tree from its background.... This small step in Carlingill Beck, more notable for its photogenic setting than its magnitude, lies just downstream of Black Force, the ~100 m cascade waterfall where Little Ulgill Beck meets the main channel. The blocky Silurian gritstone underlying the Howgill Fells is rarely visible at the grassy surface, but the exposures are usually worth seeing!

11-Oct-14 • Ministry • flickr

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Upper Carlin Gill, Howgill Fells, Yorkshire Dales National Park near Tebay, Cumbria, UK

It's difficult for a photo to demonstrate the scale of the steep slopes lining the upper end of Carlin Gill (and most other Howgill valleys), but those trees beside Carlingill Beck are indeed tree-sized – they're not huge, but they're not bushes! I suppose they have a sheltered, well-water location, with thin glacial soil improved by nutrients washed downhill. Maybe statistics express it better. The very flat slope to the left of the trees ascends ~125 m from the Beck to the ridgetop, maintaining a 1-in-1.76 incline for a horizontal distance of 220 m. No wonder the sheep walk single-file on narrow terraces. Even then, the end of the flat section isn't the top, which is beyond a further, teasingly convex slope. The furthest ridge on the left descends rightwards from Knowles (461 m) towards Back Balk. The nearer ridge is simply on the side of Carlin Gill, between the tributary gulleys of Small Gill and Heskaw Gill. The right bank is the sparser-vegetated Screes of Black Force. The hill in the background is Greyrigg Pike, 4 km away.

11-Oct-14 • Ministry • flickr

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Tree beside Black Force, Carlin Gill, Howgill Fells near Sedbergh, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria, UK

Directly behind this tree on Ulgill Rigg, Little Ulgill Beck falls ~100 m vertically (in a cascade, not single drop) over Black Force to join Carlingill Beck, visible at the lower right. The steep slope on the right, facing the waterfall, is the Screes of Black Force. It's difficult for a photo to demonstrate the scale of the slopes lining the upper end of Carlin Gill (and most other Howgill valleys), but those trees beside the beck are indeed fully tree-sized – they're not huge, but they're not bushes! Behind, two tributaries join the main beck: Small Gill and Heskaw Gill. The haziness behind the tree indicates that they were being fed by new rain at the time of the photo – which was heading my way.... The left ridge continues as Back Balk to Gallows Hill overlooking Fairmile Road (a single track Roman road) and the Lune Gorge. Beyond is Greyrigg Pike, 4 km away in the Lake District National Park, and more rain largely obscuring Borrowdale. Beyond the Screes of Black Force, the slope on the right rises to Uldale Head, forming the northern side of Carlin Gill. Blease Fell is at the end, 2½ km away.

11-Oct-14 • Ministry • flickr

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In the Howgills

Olympus OM1, Ektachrome E64, slide scanned, digital development in Lightroom.

19-Aug-78 • Ed Fulton • flickr

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