Pure Banter: CAMPING

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com A video compiled from all the clips recorded from when we went to Kendal. Basically, all the best bits! Enjoy! Miles Dickinson Andy Canter Adam Whittiker
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Hot Springs, Arkansas camp at "Young's Lakeshore RV Resort" 1-800-470-7875

Call 1-800-470-7875 City water/sewer, 68 ch. cbl TV, Wi/Fi 30&50 amp electric. Our Boat Ramp is your gateway to Lake Hamilton. 2.5 miles from Oaklawn Jockey Club and Gaming Center. 4.5 miles from Hot Springs National Park and the Historic District. 12 minutes to Magic Spring's.on the web at: www.rvhotsprings.com
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This is that infamous couple, Ray and Pauline Moody, who write that backpacking guide to the Coast to Coast Walk. This time they tried it in reverse, or east to west, enjoyable but should be done as the master or A Wainwright ordered, west to east.
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Camping July 21, 2010

Maple Grove Campground on Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island

Pra The Lake District Pune

PraThe Lake District Pune is up-coming luxury residential project of PRA Group located at Kondhwa in Pune. The Lake District Pune is offering you the choice of 1.5/2/2.5/3 BHK apartments covering a space of 784 sq ft to 1578 sq ft. The price of the apartments of The Lake District Pune is in affordable range, which is starting from Rs. 21, 71,680 onwards. The tentative year on which possession is expected to be offered is year 2013.

The project Pra The Lake District Pune is at vicinity from where its inhabitants can get rare view of beautiful landscapes and greenery. In addition, Pra The Lake District Pune is filled with many ultra modern amenities, such as, swimming pool, kid’s play area, party hall, gymnasium, and 100% power to make your life more comfortable.In addition, Pra The Lake District is filled with world class amenities, such as, Swimming pool, Kid’s play area, Party hall, Gymnasium, 100% Power back-Up and theme garden.

a brainchild of PRA Realty – redefines modern housing with its wide range of unit plans in Kondhwa Annex, Pune. Located amidst lush greenery & tranquillity, the Lake District is clubbed with all the modern amenities and recreational facilities required for a sustainable township development.

About Developer PRA - PRA Reality the founder of Lake District property. They are offering their great contribution in the field of real estate development since 2005. They have their office in Mumbai, Pune and Chicago. They continue to discover opportunities to expand profitable properties and hotels throughout the country, also with global investment partners.

Thus, the swift industrial and residential growth has made property in Pune a gem for the investors across the whole country.They have their firm faith that their national network, key relationships, local market knowledge, and highly selective investment & development approach enables us to benefit from an eye-catching pricing of strategic properties.

For  1.5 BHK Pra The Lake District Pune project cost will be Rs 21,71,680. For 2BHK+2Tcost is 26,78,590 and as like 3BHK+4T cost will be Rs 43,71,060. Being developer of the whole project, PRA Reality  full well what the need of the society. There is not much of a surprise that people has high expectations of phadnis Pra The Lake District Kondhwa. Anyone who is seeking a superb place to live will find it in Pra The Lake District Pune. With Pra The Lake District Pune, you are going to get flats, apartments where you can give your prospect a huge lift. All your dreams will turn into reality and your investment is definitely going to pay off in the long run. To meet the challenges and take advantage of the tremendous opportunity, PRA has grown its core capabilities by attracting an experienced and complementary team. s

 

 

Experience a drive through the lake district mountain range with a bit of DNB
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Lake District scenery

In addition to its main outcrop lying athwart the central and highest part of the luxury themed boutique hotels in the lake district , the Borrowdale Volcanic beds also occur along the northern fringe beyond Skiddaw. Their distinctive character and the way they have influenced the scenery can be seen when one is passing through the strip of country between Cockermouth  and Caldbeck. The hill above Bothel Crags with the Roman fort of Caermote on its eastern flank, and the isolated conical hill of Binsey with its bare rocky slopes, are but two of the distinctive topographic features associated with the harder rock in this foot. Hill zone. Farther east the volcanic beds also form the northern rim of the Caldbeck Fells, and beyond the eastern edge of the Skiddaw mass they make their final appearance on Eycott Hill, overlooking the marshy trough of the Mungrisdale Valley.

The lavas here have a very distinctive appearance, with large elongated crystals of felspar running throughout the rock.

Other softer beds are present so that the western slope of the hill has a markedly terraced appearance. On top there is a jumble of bare rock ribs with intervening marshy hollows, a reminder that at this northeast extremity of its outcrop the Borrow¬dale Volcanic Series does not bow out without making its own distinctive con¬tribution to the landscape. The country of the southern fringes of the Lake District, the part first seen by visitors making their way from the motor way near Kendal towards the innermost valleys and fells, has a more subdued appearance. Apart from the flanks of the high plateau of the Eastern Fells around Staveley the land is nearly all below a thousand feet.

Much of the area known as High Furness, between Coniston Water and Windermere, is typical of a countryside developed on a succession of different rock types, mainly of Silurian age. To Jonathan Otley this was greywacke country, so named from the prevalence of gritty material in the rocks. Individual beds with distinctive characteristics have been given local names, like the Stockdale Shales from the hamlet now a single farm lying in a tributary valley of Long Sleddale . Similarly the Bannisdale Slates refers to the valley in the Eastern Fells where they are typically developed, while the Brathay Flags are associated with the estate at the head of Lake Windermere.

At the base of the whole series is the Coniston Limestone, seldom more than two hundred feet thick and consequently forming a very narrow outcrop. In spite of its name there are only impure limestone beds, and calcareous mudstone would be a more descriptive title. In areas where lime is scarce, small quarries were opened up in the past and the rock burned for agricultural purposes. At Stockdale Farm in Long Sleddale an old lime kiln stands in the farmyard within a few yards of the outcrop on the other side of the stream.

Although the actual outcrop is narrow, the persistence of the Coniston Limestone makes it a good marker bed separating the older Borrowdale Volcanic rocks from the newer Silurian strata above. Because of the limited thickness of the bed, the effect on the landscape is minimal. Towards the head of the Kent mere valley near Kent mere Hall  the outcrop coincides with the col of the Garburn Pass which leads across into Troutbeck. Similarly parts of the pass which runs across to Long Sleddale from Stile End also coincide with the lime¬stone. Both cols owe their present form to ice erosion, but undoubtedly the weaker strata here compared with the hard volcanic rocks to the north helped erosion.

The upland scenery of the Lake District

Perhaps the most telling effect of the role of ice in fashioning the upland scenery can be seen in the creation of the corrie basins which bite deeply into the sides of the ridgesThings to do in Windermere. Whereas the preglacial setting was one of rounded slopes gently curving upwards to merge with flat plateau tops, corrie development has led to a rough scalloped appearance. Not every part of the upland surface has been affected to the same degree and on many ridge sides there is a marked contrast between opposing slopes. The Helvellyn ridge, for example, presents its smooth face towards Thirlmere on the west, and this contrasts markedly with the indented, deeply cut angular topography which runs down to the shores of Ullswater.

Valleys like those of Grisedale and Glen ridding start in corrie basins, often with scooped out lake hollows for example, Red Tarn and Grisedale Tarn.

They are backed by a steep headwall, and on their sides precipitous slopes reach up to the narrow divide or arete ridge. Two of the best known features of the Lake District landscape, Striding Edge and Swirral Edge, are aretes formed by corries biting deeply into what was once almost a continuous smooth eastern face of Evelyn. Seen from the mountain top, the narrow spines are impressive enough, but if the scree which has accumulated on their sides were to be stripped away, the resulting solid rock slopes would be almost precipitous.

Many of the corries, though by no means the majority, contain small lakes held up either by rock sills or a boulder moraine. Impressive morainic ridges occur across the entrances to Blea Water above Mardale, Bowscale Tarn on the Skiddaw massif and Gillercornb at the head of Borrowdale. Most moraines resemble great heaps of boulders piled one on top of the other as they were left behind when the corrie glacier had lost its impetus and was only too willing to dump its load of debris. Crossing boulder moraines can be a tiring experience, as anyone who has negotiated the rock jumble across the entrance to the corrie containing Levers Water above Coniston knows. Most of the corrie tarns occupy quite shallow rock hollows, but in the case of Blea Water at the head of Mardale the surprising depth of 207 ft was found. The back¬wall is usually very steep even when compared with the slopes of the side walls. Dow Crag, formed of a hard andesite rock, is precipitous in its upper part and for that reason the vertical buttress is favored by rock climbers.

Although the detailed form of corries varies considerably depending on the rock type, orientation, the presence of secondary features like moraines and screes, there is a surprising uniform relationship between two of its major dimensions the height of the back wall and the length of the 'seat'. Measurement made from the many corries scattered throughout the Lake District show that the ratio of back wall to seat varies within the narrow limits of 1:2•8 to 1:3'2. Rock type seems to play little part in determining the distribution or size of the corrie basins. The fine group which overlook the Buttermere valley from the southwest brings this out very clearly. Ling Comb is cut entirely in a hard igneous granophyre a type of granite with large crystals. The adjacent corrie enclosing Bleaberry is hollowed out of both granophyre and slates, but in spite of this dual rock composition its form is not very different. In a wider context corries show no preference for any of the major rock types, as they occur both in the Skiddaw Slates, as around Blencathra  and Black Combe , as well as in the Borrowdale Volcanic Series at Coniston Old Man , Langdale Fells  and Helvellyn.

Margy and Wayne Lutz were camping in Coastal British Columbia when they discovered their dream home: the float cabins of Powell Lake. They're not houseboats, but "float cabins", that is, they're permanently anchored to shore. Float cabins were first built on Powell Lake as inexpensive and portable homes for loggers and fishermen. Since then they've become regulated and the 200 float cabin owners here these days lease their water lots from the BC government for 0 per year. The Lutz's bought their retirement home in 2001 for 35000 Canadian dollars (about 000 USD, at the time), what they considered worth the risk if their experiment in off-grid living didn't workout. A few years later they retired early from their school district jobs in Los Angeles, anxious to start living their dream, and moved into their small (420 square feet, plus a 200-square-foot sleeping loft) floating home. At the time it didn't have indoor plumbing so they hiked 4 flights of stairs up the granite cliff to an outhouse (they've since installed a composting toilet indoors). Today, the Lutzs live completely off-the-grid. There's no water heater (they boil it on the wood stove as a luxury) and no plumbing. They hand-pump water from the lake (for washing dishes, they remove most food first and use only biodegradable soap and the water is returned to the lake). There's no trash pickup. They compost nearly everything. For their energy uses, the Lutzs rely on solar, wind, and thermoelectric power. For ...
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Lake District rock bars

The succession of small basins with intervening breaks coinciding with rock bars or morainic ridges is a feature of many valleys which once witnessed the passage of ice. Another similar ungraded valley is that of nearby Kent mereLake District Honeymoon Hotel
. Here a much bigger lake once existed in the vicinity of Kent mere Hall in which diatomaceous* deposits gradually accumulated and led in time to its infilling. A major break in the long profile of the valley occurs north of Kent mere Church  where a pronounced rock bar, its edge plucked and accentuated by moving ice, is developed at the junction of the soft and well cleaved Brow gill Slates with the harder volcanic rocks.

Against this bar, the glacier rested during its retreat stage and laid down a great boulder moraine just north of the church. Upstream a further rock step occurs near Kentmere Reservoir , although the building of the dam has masked much of this glacially derived feature.

Compared with the outlying valleys like Kentmere and Long Sleddale, Great Langdale experienced a much fuller and more intense glaciation over a long period. Lying in the lee of the highest peaks like Scafell and Great Gable, the valley head never lacked the heavy snowfall to nurture active glaciers. The area also felt the full force of outwardly moving ice streams when the whole central region was blanketed by a more or less continuous ice dome. Even after the Ice Age had 'officially' ended, its upland corries once more saw the growth of small glaciers for a short time about 8800 B.C. As at the head of Borrowdale and elsewhere, these grew and ultimately spilled over and moved slowly down into the trough end of Great Langdale at Mickleden to a height of only 400 ft.

There the glacier laid down the same agglomeration of hummocky drift, with hillocks and intervening marshy hollows occurring over a wide area . This was but the final dying phase of glacial activity in the valley. Earlier a more intense glacier action had already transformed what was originally a small V¬shaped valley eroded by normal river action into the Ushaped trough we know today. With its steep rocky sides, scree slopes, abrupt combe end and marshy floor broken only by rock bars, it fulfils all the requirements of a typical glaciated valley. Microfeatures like roche moutonees, great boulder trains left behind after the ice melted and striations* on the exposed rock surfaces, all occur as further evidence of intense local ice activity.

Many of the major features seen by those visiting Great Langdale date from a tinle when a great glacier occupied the whole valley during the Last glaciation. There is evidence to suggest that at its maximum stage of develop¬ment the upper surface of the glacier lay at a height of about 1,400 ft. At this time the snout lay well beyond the mouth of Great Langdale. While advancing in the direction of Ambleside and the head of Windermere it was constantly fed by ice accumulating in its source region around Bowfell. In this active state the sole of the glacier gouged out hollows in the valley floor; these later became the sites of lakes like Elterwater. The present lake is very much the shrunken remnant of a larger original feature. Infilling has taken place and its irregular reedy margins show that the process is still going on and in time no doubt the whole lake will disappear.

This has already been the fate of a similar lake which once occupied the valley floor upstream from Chapel Stile. The glacier, for all its great erosive powers when at the height of its activity, never quite succeeded in removing the harder rock bars which lay across its path as at Chapel Stile and Skelwith Bridge. Both rock bars coincide with beds of a toughened volcanic ash. The ice, by plucking at the well cleaved slates and jointed lava beds on either side of the rock bars, tended to accentuate the features rather than remove them. With such prominent obstacles in its path the river has been forced to cut deep gorges through the rock bars. That at Skelwith Bridge is well known and much visited. Certainly after heavy rain the waterfalls make impressive viewing when seen from the footpath which wends its way up through the wooded glade of the gorge.

Experience one of Britain's most picturesque locations on family holidays to the Lake District at the fantastic Haven Lakeland Holiday Park. Visit the scenic deep lakes such as the striking Lake Windermere or the nearby impressive stately home of Holker Hall. www.haven.com
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