A few (mainly record shots) from Upper Teesdale, grabbed during a wander down to
Cow Green reservoir with Al last week. The one of the Grouse is from a few weeks ago when
many of us thought spring was just around the corner.
The B6277 road still had decent sized
drifts.
The other day when I came down it had blown in quite badly
and it was just one lane in places.
Today they were widening the road
The road down to the dam
Drifts at Ashgill Head
Cow Green
Reservoir was well frozen with excellent views of the high Pennine mountains of
Cross Fell, Little Dun Fell and Great Dun Fell. The place where Red Sike enters
seemed to be the only area that was not frozen.
From right to left Cross Fell, Little Dun Fell and
Great Dun Fell.
I thought this was an iceberg but on closer
inspection turned out to be an ice coated boulder .
The poor old Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus must be
finding it hard
Trip date 04/04/13 All text/images copyright David Forster
Looks good, is this in the last few days? I can remember going to upper Teesdale a couple of years ago after a major freeze and seeing huge blocks of ice that had been dumped by the river, an impressive sight.
ReplyDeleteHi James. Sorry I should have added a date. It was just before the weekend so Thursday 4th Apri 2013. I have added the date for clarification.
DeleteI have seen blocks of ice washed up on the banks before, but did not see the huge ones from a couple of years ago. I bet it was impressive, hope you managed to get a few pics?
I did not get any photos from the Tees itself (spotted whilst I was driving) but the first photo in this post shows some on Troutbeck.
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Wow thanks for that, to get ice that thick takes a prolonged freeze, it really is a different world up there.
DeleteBlimey, you're not joking - plenty of snow! I love your photo of the red grouse in the snow.
ReplyDeleteI was out in the Lakes the day before yesterday and although it was sunny and felt quite warm there wasn't a very rapid thaw underway. I suppose it's possible that some of these really large drifts will cling on for quite some time.
I suspect you are right Mark the snow may well cling on in some places for good while. I have some video footage from 2012 of it snowing in May up there so who knows how long it will last. I am ready for some warmer weather now though.
DeleteNow THAT'S snow. None down here, though, on the middle stretch of the Tees. Like the iceberg picture.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Alen
I noticed there wasn't much snow over your way. I think the latest heavy snowfall has been pretty localised across the northeast. We had a struggle getting home one night along the A66 so diverted up the A1 to Darlington and was surprised to see only a dusting of snow there. At home it was level with the wall tops in places. It all gone now though - good old British weather. Cheers, David
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