[Closed] wheres this cairn(?)

Don’t recall fir trees in Langdale. So not sure about Pike o Blisco call

r we sure it’s not brotherswater inn!

blencathra and derwent below

The view from the hotel is definitely Pike O Blisco. The other mountain is probably as well (from Stool End or thereabouts), with The Band rising on the right.

does you mate still have no idea of all of this??^^ or is he sat in a mega thread on a parallel forum asking where the hell shall we try next?

he obviously knows im bullshitting, he just cant work out how 😀  hes been asking people whether its possible to get location data from photos etc 😀

ive hit him with the brotherswater answer, if not ill try pike o blisco.  he thinks hes got me, but we know better than that dont we 😉

Then again, it could be taken from the sheepfold on the Cumbria Way in Mickleden...snow always makes me confused.

just to see if it makes any difference, these are the two pics before that one in his set, with the third pic being the one after?

Oh, alright then, that's Seathwaite in Borrowdale, and walking up Grains Gill.

Why stay in the ODG then drive to Borrowdale? Sneaky bugger.

may have been over two days?  so has that narrowed the offending picture down?

EDIT:  hes just replied that that last guess is getting further away! :-/

Don't think there's much doubt it's Grains Gill.

As per Martin, all the pics look like borrowdale and specifically stockley bridge area looking up grains gill

pics above with stream on right would've been taken pretty much in same spot on the path in the background in this pic

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Yes these cottages immediately make me think of Seathwaite

goof challenge

i think youve defo got it there martin (and the others), good work!

i await his reply, but im sure youre right.

cheers 🙂

Sorry but that tent pic made me Laugh out loud. Oh dear.

BINGO!!  thanks chaps, apparently taken from stockley bridge with seathwaite on the right or somethings.....

cheers

next.........

i had a look at the other photos in his collection, and this was the next one.  very distictive so hopefully gets you in the right area for those first two?

thanks a lot

Bowder Stone? first two Langdales, Little? The quarry, If I am right, gets dark down that corridor;)

The middle one is Borrowdale, that's Goat Crag on the fellside behind with the hill at the left edge being Castle Crag. At a guess it has been taken from the top of the ladder on the Bowderstone which is the bottom shot.

The mine entrance looks quite like Goldscope mine in Newlands valley.

just googled newlands valley, dont think thats anywhere near is it?

so are we saying the first one is possibly called little langdale quarry?

whitestone, thanks for the info on the second one 🙂

Last pic is def bowder stone. Not sure if first one is little Langdale quarry, was there yesterday and whilst very similar (and a good walk) it doesn’t look 100%.

just googled newlands valley, dont think thats anywhere near is it?

Right next door to Borrowdale, so near enough. Whitestone is right about pic 2. The polish on the foot/handholds gives it away.

There are loads of those mine entrances around. Perhaps there's one in Quayfoot Quarry which is right next to the Bowderstone.

just before i take a 1 in 3 guess then, (little langdale quarry, quayfoot quarry or newlands valley) ill just put up the pics next to it, just in case it gives a clue as to his movements.....

we had this just before the bowder stone.......

so then it was bowderstone, then these.....

........followed by the cave entrance.  then after the cave was.......

does this make any sense as a possible route?

thanks

As soon as I saw the cave I thought gold scope mine, newlands valley. I’ve led a few groups into there,back in the day. The last few pics are various points around buttermere lake shore, then the very last is , I think, crummock water from buttermere end, melbreak fell on left. However, not aware of a cave/mine like that near buttermere, although there is the rock tunnel on the footpath on buttermere east side......could be there! In fact, given the location clues from the other pics I’m going for that.

+1 for the tunnel TomB

Yep, tunnel on the Buttermere lakeside path, definitely.

The first pic in this series is from the bridge in Grange looking up the valley to Caste Crag and Goat Crag. The remainder are on a walk around the shores of Buttermere.

Bingo!  100%!  well done lads, i knew i could rely on you 🙂

next.........

think theyve been taken somewhere near haystacks maybe?  any good to any of you?

thanks

First one looks like Skiddaw in the background, so I'm going for both pics being in or near Hollows Farm Campsite at Grange.

ill try him with that then, thanks 🙂

spot on again, thanks a lot 🙂

hes after a room number again, i think its the old dungeon ghyll.  not much to go on, but i think he may have gone for a room with at least a double and single in as he took his grandson.

if it is indeed the ODG, heres the link to the rooms......

http://www.odg.co.uk/facilities/

thanks

Bump for the weekday crowd.....

Doesn't look like the hills outside the ODG to me but I've usually overindulged when I've been there

;o)

It's definitely the ODG. If you look SE on Google streetview from the junction you can see the hill in the picture. The angle from the window says it's a South facing room, and it a Georgian sash window. Between the parked vehicle and window sill you can the edge of a slate roof - so I think it's the first floor below the left gable in this photo. The room must have a low ceiling because there's a window above, but I can't match it definitively with any of the illustrations on the hotel website.

now thats the sort of detail that excites me 🙂

ive emailed the ODG giving them that information, telling them the story and am hoping theyll play the game too 😀

bingo, they replied with room 5 🙂

next one...... its in a folder called mellbreak.

Err..there's your clue.

It's the view from the south top of Mellbreak looking towards Buttermere and Haystacks.

Err..there’s your clue.

id have guessed so, but having never been to the lakes i needed that extra info 😉

thanks a lot

bit of a tricky one this, unless it means anything to anyone?  google brings nowt up.......

Is it in the Lakes again?

Lonscale fell or Blease fell?

Is it in the Lakes again?

i believe so, this is the next pic in his album......

Lonscale fell or Blease fell?

a total guess or is it based on something youve spotted?

thanks

its looking to Thirlmere (Helvellyn) with cat bells, grisedale pike to the R i think.

second pic is st johns in the vale me thinks.

The view is of the foot of Borrowdale from Puddingstone Bank or thereabouts. No idea where your random rock is though!

A guess. martinhutch says the view is from near Puddingstone Bank. Puddingstone is conglomerate rock, ie, small stones embedded in a matrix. It can be sedimentary, with pebbles embedded, or volcanic, which may be more angular. Borrowdale is generally volcanic. The slab the named rock is on might be Puddingstone.

That's all I know at the moment. Except, no hipflask in the picture?

Agreed, pudding stone bank/birkett’s leap, looking towards Johnny wood and seatoller. Part of the Borrowdale Bash descent to rosthwaite. No idea on the significance of the pebble in the first photo.

If I was to make an educated guess, the named pebble on a rock might be one of the rocks by the lake side at Watendlath.

Although it could be a clever/subtle one and it's a stone resting on a rock at a place named Resting Stone on the OS map below Puddingstone Bank.

I guess someone is a fan of Borrowdale?

Although it could be a clever/subtle one and it’s a stone resting on a rock at a place named Resting Stone on the OS map below Puddingstone Bank.

Is he into geocaching, I wonder? The item looks like the kind of thing you'd find/leave in a cache and there is one called Resting Stone in that location...

It could be a geocache. It could also be one of those Facebook groups where they paint stones and leave them in locations to be "discovered" by the next person.

Except, no hipflask in the picture?

he apologised for this 😀

ive just guessed at 'the puddingstone bank area' which he says is wrong.  does that rule any of the other guesses out such as watendlath?

Is he into geocaching, I wonder?

not as far as i know.  i assume resting stone is still puddingstone area too?

thanks

Yes, resting stone is just below puddingstone bank. A popular walk that comes that way is the loop from rosthwaite towards stonethwaite, then up to dock tarn, then watendlath and down puddingstone bank. Could the boulder/pebble be at Dock Tarn?

well based on the angle of the gables? behind the poky out ridge, and my recollection of the ride over from watendlath to rosthwaite (ie down the trail from "puddingstone bank area"), I reckon the pic is from about 5:00 in to the first random borrowdale bash vid I found on youtube...

almost Rosthwaite  (well the country house hotel you get to before the village)

no clue about the stone with someone's name on

well you beauties....... you were spot on after all with the resting stone!  he just didnt know it was near puddingstone bank, so youre knowledge is superior 😀

well done chaps, you never let me down 🙂

👍

looking at the other pics in this album, buttermere, honister and derwent water were mentioned.  think hes lost his hip flask by the way so its now his wifes water bottle 😀

any ideas?

I think he's onto your 'other pics in this album' trick. Looks a bit sandstoney for north Lakes near Keswick. Perhaps somewhere on the way out, as it looks like Eden Valley rock, maybe in Penrith or something like that?

haha do you think so? 😀  just seen another pic in the album and wondered whether it couldbe one of those arches?  what dya think?

(btw, i do think he stayed near penrith so that could be a decent shout)

Pele Tower, Clifton Hall?

hmmm...... youre right with that second pic, just not convinced now its the same arch when i look at the colour of the bricks etc.  and theres no sign of a metal door there either....

Old sandstone buildings in that area could be Brougham castle or Penrith Castle?

pah, its neither of them, even though his pics show they DID go to brougham castle :-/

any other suggestions?

EDIT:  it could be part of a 12 mile hike that included brougham, and may also have included this place?

Camelot?

c'mon, hes taunting me now, we cant be having this! 😀

Camelot?

is that the disused theme park?  looked at a few pics and cant see anything that looks similar, plus id expect him to put a few more pics up of the place if he'd been there.

help!!

Camelot was a joke!

The old theme park is at Charnock Richard south of Preston so nowhere near this place.

I think it is Lowther Castle

That is lowther castle, I believe....

nope, hes beating me (us) :-/

@sadexpunk - for clarity the castle photographed on the walk is Lowther Castle.

So if he went on a 12 mile walk in that area it's probably an old church or a grand building with the local stone within a 5 mile radius and in the Eden valley.  I reckon it is a blocked off priest's door into an old church, or a side door into a Castle/Tower/Manor house.

If we work together and look at the Geograph website, some Cumbrian churches and castle websites we'll find it.
But if someone actually knew what it was it'd be much more helpful !!!!!

Just tell him that no picture will be attempted unless it contains a hip flask.

If we work together and look at the Geograph website, some Cumbrian churches and castle websites we’ll find it.
But if someone actually knew what it was it’d be much more helpful !!!!!

not sure what i can bring to the party, i know nothing about the area :-/

Just tell him that no picture will be attempted unless it contains a hip flask.

haha, thats gonna have to be my cop out, im hoping tho that i never have to play that card.....

just tried looking at geograph website, but i dont really know exactly where his walk would be so its hard to pin down the right photos.  could anyone help me out please?  cant let him beat me 🙂

St cuthberts clifton?

A wild guess . . . the tower on Beacon Hill ?

I think Esme has it. The darker bit of keystone that's just visible in his photo matches Esme's, as does the joint in the wall just below the bottom of the arch. I can't find any images that are at the right angle to show the steel door either there or not there, but somebody has blogged their walk to Penrith Beacon and wrote "Grills and a solid metal door prevented any access to the structure".

Good work. He has been defeated again, I think.

A wild guess . . . the tower on Beacon Hill ?

a wild guess???  wow!!  absolutely bang on, you lads and lasses never cease to amaze me.  thought he had me there but youve come good for me 🙂

well done esme, i dont know how you did it, but thanks 🙂

Haha . . . so just like your friend doesn't know how you do it 😉