After yesterday’s (foolish ?) run to get prepared for next month’s race [Aside: Is it really February already! Not long now and the crampons can go to the back of the cupboard and the rock shoes get to see real, sun warmed, rock again. Yeah! 😛 ], our knees were knackered. Running is definitely bad for you! Add to that injury the self inflicted insult of too much booze when Keith & Fiona visited for the evening, and you have the perfect excuse to turn down offers of going to the climbing wall. Instead, a gentle walk near Elterwater…
Not much to add, except this shot of the moody winter sky over Weatherlam.
A little later (near to the Elterwater Quarry – we can’t give the location too exactly for fear of Ian hot-tailing over there with his pliers! 😮 ) we came across this fallen tree. Perhaps the last example of the now extinct money tree?
Looks like a ‘copper’ beech to me…or possibly a ‘silver’ one….don’t think there’s a ‘gold’ beech…is there?!