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Old 27th March 2014, 03:14 PM
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We are thinking about booking a weeks holiday in the Lake District around September, probably around the Borrowdale area.

I'm sure I will find plenty of photo opportunities, but does anyone have any suggestions of what areas and places to visit so that I can do some planning? We will be traveling by car.

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Old 27th March 2014, 03:36 PM
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Plan for heavy traffic. Thre's no such thing as low season in the Lakes but summmer or late summer will be busy. Take very good waterproofs. Rains a LOT in the lakes. Get to your days location early to avoid traffic and walk uphill to get away from the crowds.
Doesn't matter where you go you will find, water, rocks, drystone walls, hillside farms, sheep, rivers and woodland to photograph.
I'd say do your planning based on the walks you want to do. Get yourself one of the myriad of lakeland walking guides/books, Wainrights being the classic ones. Plan a daily walk with a days plan B in case of torrential rain and then everything will revolve around that. And for Plan B days the towns will be crawling with tourists, not that they aren't anyway.
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Old 27th March 2014, 05:50 PM
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Keith,

It will be busy but even so once you have parked and start walking the place gets less crowded. Take plenty of small change as you will need it for the car parks - even the NT ones now charge you! If you want to abandon the car for a day drive to Keswick and take the round robin ferry around Derwentwater hopping off and on at various stops along the way - loads of good photo opportunities to be had.

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September after the schools have gone back is Pensioner season. They move more slowly, especially when driving. Still that gives you more time to appreciate the countryside as you drive along.
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Dalt Quarry near Grange-in-Borrowdale is well worth a visit and can be incorporated into a short but steep walk up Castle Crag which has photogenic opportunities on the way up, on the top, and the view from the top.

If you want to concentrate on photography rather than hill-walking I'd say the Wainwrights are not the best guides because they concentrate on listing all the routes to the top, but photographically better views can be found on lakeside and riverside walks, perhaps because there is more vegetation. Of course in the long run if you regularly visit the Lakes and walk the tops you will discover the valley walks on the way up, or on the way down when you may be too tired to lift the camera !

If you have good waterproofs, and maybe an umbrella for sheltering the camera, then even pouring rain needn't stop you from doing detail studies in the woods, of rocks, and of waterfalls.
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even the NT ones now charge you!

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The NT car parks are free if you are an NT member. The confusion arises because the ones near to Rydal at White Moss were taken back by the original owners, Lowther Estates I think, and it is they who have imposed the charges.

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September after the schools have gone back is Pensioner season. They move more slowly, especially when driving. Still that gives you more time to appreciate the countryside as you drive along.
As a pensioner living near the Lake District Thanks for that. What holds us up is the visitors who drive slowly to look at the views!

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As a pensioner living near the Lake District Thanks for that. What holds us up is the visitors who drive slowly to look at the views!

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Living in the South Hams of Devon I see it every year. As soon as the school hols are over the families with young children disappear and BAM!!!, there's loads of very much older holiday makers in evidence.
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Default A good walk (or two)

Non of these are really strenuous but will give you more photographic opportunities than you can shake a stick at.

1. Park at the lakeside car park in Keswick, they charge for this but the costs are not astronomic like some places (Ambleside for one) then walk up the side of the lake following the path which takes you sometimes away from the lake but at times almost walking in it. Some of the walk is along the lakeside road but not much. Finish your walk at one of the two cafe's at Grange. Then walk along the west side of the lake to the footpath that takes you over the end of the lake on a suspended wooden walkway almost to the Lodore Falls Hotel and get the ferry back to Keswick. About 5 miles walking in all and most of it on level(ish) ground

2. Drive to Grange and park up at the end of the bridge in the village. Get there early because it is a prime location and parking otherwise is very restricted. Walk through the village past the 2nd cafe and turn left onto the footpath heading up Borrowdale valley. Either follow the path along the river which brings you out on the road a couple of miles down from Grange and then walk to Seatoller. Return via the reverse route.

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My preferred route take the right fork on the same footpath out of Grange and start the gentle climb up the path past Castle Crag and along the old sheep trail, again to Seatoller. This is a bit of a rough road at times and good walking boots are recommended to stop the stony surface hurting your feet. There may be a bit of scrambling to do, depending if the path has been damaged during the winter.

There is a good cafe in Seathwaite and you will be ready for their huge pots of tea. Walk back to Grange via the low road described in the early part of the walk No 2. About 6 miles all the way.

(Seatoller at one time had the reputation of being the wettest part of the UK, how true that is I don't know)

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