Lake District Walks: Tarn Hows
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Tarn Hows, near Hawkshead, is one of the Lake District's most popular beauty spots. On this short afternoon walk around the tarn, we look at it's history as a tourist attraction, and discover that it is not as old as it seems.
Love your sense of humour! We’ll give this walk a go on Friday!
Thank you. Hope you have a lovely time. The weather forecast for this Friday is good.
TADARRRRR, reminds me of Centre Parcs, 3 years ago (where we should have been last week) when I was walking with my grandson and jumped onto a fallen tree, saying the exact same TARDARRR, until I found I could not sop myself and went head first over the top lol! What a great little spot this is and a place (like many others) we have been going to visit for years, so this has made our motivation even stronger, cheers Alan
Always been a favourite of mine since my first visit in 1970. In those days we parked our minibus on the slope overlooking the tarn (along with everyone else) and had no idea of its history. We just enjoyed the beauty. A few years later we went over one moonlit night in the middle of winter, and watched skaters on the tarn. There were plenty of folk there, including a chap with a portable hot dog stall down by the dam.
My wife and i love your guides and thank you very much for all your time and effort. We have found new walks in the lakes and its all down to your good self. Best wishes stephen and Margaret.
Thank you. I'm pleased you've enjoyed them Now that the pandemic is (hopefully) reaching its conclusion I should be able to get out and provide more inspiration for you.
We just love your videos! Your sense of humor adds extra fun!! Thank you for adding the historical information, giving us a better understanding of the area. We are watching in anticipation of a month long visit in September. Cannot wait!!!!
Thank you. September is not so far away now, and during the month that you are here you will be able to see a lot. I'm sure you will love it.
Excellent watch that video..many thanks for sharing it..I found a hidden tarn in that area last year ,its probably the one mentioned. Its a beautiful place nicely between Hawkshead and Coniston.
Thank you Mark. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and you are right, it is a beautiful place and well worth exploring.
Excellent video, a place I have loved for many years, you’ve made it easier to share it! Thank you
Thank you. I'm with you on that one, I loved it when I first went in 1970, and enjoy it just as much nowadays. A good friend of mine was there three weeks ago, and saw something I haven't seen for a number of years, a small inversion lifting off the water. She said it was magical.
Good informative video, very eloquently put, thank you so much
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Was actually there for a while this afternoon. A bit cloudy, but lovely all the same.
Nice film 10/10
Thank you. I remember my first ever visit to Tarn Hows in 1970. No car park as it is today, we actually parked on the grass overlooking the tarn along with everyone else!
@@jonathancraigguides good old days 👍
Great vid, fun and informative, looks stunning, must do that walk, subbed, atb Lee
Thank you. It's one of my favourite places. Not a long or demanding walk, but can be used as a base for other walks such as Black Crag and Holm Fell. It is also in the Cumbria Way footpath. Enjoy.
Great video I'll be doing this walk thanks to you for my first lake district outing
Thank you. I hope you have a really great time. To extend the walk, check out the Black Crag video, as the walk can be easily completed from Tarn Hows.
I love your videos! Such a joy to watch
Thank you. They are a joy to do.
Great video.. I have been to this Tarn, but prefer the more natural ones myself, great views and a brilliant place for families to visit with pushchairs.. Possibly why I have not returned.. And thanks again for the history lesson, I wish I knew this before I visited.. I wonder when it was theTarn last froze over enough to ice skate on....
My wife and I went at the end of January 2010 and it was frozen solid, although no one was actually skating. But some guys were toboganning down the hill and onto the tarn and it held them. Before we met, my wife went over when she was dating her first husband in the early sixties, probably 1963/64, and not only were there skaters, there was hot dog seller on the ice doing good trade. They stayed until after the sun went down, and people were skating under the full moon. She said it was a magical experience.
It does sound magical indeed, like something you would see in an old B/W movie.. It is a lovely Tarn and somewhere I could easily take my grandchildren too.. Maybe not to Ice skate on though.. ;)
I'm not a skater either, but I've taken nieces and nephews, and they have all loved it.
Superb, much appreciated, off there in a few weeks :)
Hope the autumn colours last for you. Leaves just on the turn here now. It will look stunning in the weeks to come.
I used to stay at Rose at Rose Castle every year. my favourite place in the whole world.
Certainly an idyllic setting. Hard to leave at the end of a holiday i would imagine.
+jonathancraigguides Amazing times had. At the time they had no electricity, No running water, No indoor bathroom just a block house with a hole in it. Great times. Pigs and sheep running through the garden in the morning being chased by the farmer.
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Sounds like fun. The kind of experience of which great memories are made.
Love your videos Eric, thanks K:-) X
+Kim Bennett Thanks Kim. All I'm missing is a leading lady with film star looks. You available any time? :-)
Can’t believe two miserable buggers gave this video a thumbs down Eric!!