Christmas in the Lake District

.....well it wasn't a white one this year. We've been here for eight Christmasses now, and had some snow on ( I think) three of those.

But we weren't disappointed, oh no..... the weather has been absolutely perfect for a week now.

Here's Christmas Day around Brackenrigg....

We're dreaming of a white Christmas!

High Rigg & Thirlmere

Two more fantastic pictures sent to us by recent guests, one looking directly from Brackenrigg at the low fell opposite, High Rigg. It often looks like this in the evening.

The other picture is the view down Thirlmere south towards the old Cumberland/Westmorland boundary of Dunmail Raise. (Grasmere is just beyond).

Holidaymakers tend to see the Lake District as a single socio-geographical entity. When you live here, you realise that it isn't! Grasmere is only 10 minutes in the car from Brackenrigg, but the locals see it as a different world!

Thirlmere, Helvellyn & Brackenrigg

One of our regular guests, Karen Sutton, has just sent us some fantastic pics she took here .....

Bleaberry, where Karen stayed

This one is Thirlmere, our nearest lake

Brackenrigg, Blencathra, Helvellyn & Skiddaw in snow

What a fantastic weekend in the Lakes!
If you like Winter walking, it is magnificent.

if you prefer the warmer, kinder valleys ...... it was that too!
Here's some pics we took, high and low, from around Brackenrigg....

Well last weekend was just BEAUTIFUL!

Managed to get out for a couple of gorgeous walks - the valleys & low fells around Brackenrigg on Saturday, and then Blencathra at dawn on Sunday.

Recent pictures around Brackenrigg, Naddle, Cumbria

These are a few pictures taken around Brackenrigg Holiday Cottages this week.

Autumn is famously lovely in the Lake District, and thisyear is no exception - in fact many people are saying that the colours are even better than usual!

Shoulthwaite Ghyll was one of Wainwright's favourite spots - it is a beautiful hidden valley just up behind brackenrigg, with gorgeous streams & waterfalls, and views towards Lonscale Fell (the eastern flank of Skiddaw) and Blencathra, and between them to the pyramidal Great Calva.

The walking in the valley is delightful, and extremely peaceful -somedays there's as many deer as humans!