Applethwaite, Keswick, Cumbria, England

The place where I made this photo would be a perfect place for anyone with a panoramic camera because make the most of the full girth of what's before demands just such an approach. There is a companion photo to the above elsewhere and you already may have spotted it. Recently, I created a panorama in Photoshop Elements (7, if you need to know) using both and it worked out well enough. While I'm sure how I might make use of my effort, it was good to see what was achievable and I cannot declare any real artistic flair, computer-related or otherwise.

Returning to what these few scratchings accompany, Applethwaite is a small collection of houses mercifully located just off the A591 on a single track road. It was from here that I mad my first attempts to reach the top of Skiddaw, the one in the middle at the back. There was a lot of rooting around in the name of a walk but time and energy both ran out and I got finding out how eroded the paths were. Another discovery was that woodland navigation is far from simple but that's a story for another day. It was later on that I approached the unmissable hump from the Latrigg end and took in Little Man (the one at the right) on the way down. Some go up from Bassenthwaite and cross both Long Side and Carl (that's at the left), an altogether more airy experience that may scare some. Well, I suppose that there always are those seeking quieter and more adventurous approaches to these things.