Mapping The Lakes
Looking out across Wasdale conjures many emotions. The overriding one for me is how nature only just puts up with us humans. Our new range of Lakes posters 'Lake District Views' attempts to offer both the beauty and the capricious nature of the Lake District. Each design incorporates snippets of a location map from the Penguin Guide to The Lake District, first published in 1939.
Wasdale is a special place. It's wild, moody with ominous mountains and deep lakes. Above all, it's beautiful and if you're one for being out in the wild, sucking in the beauty of nature then this is the place to be. The mountains are at their biggest here so no view doesn't include an imposing backdrop.
Blencathra is another place that can be benign and gentle with beautiful views across Derwentwater, but also in wetter and colder days a heaving beast of defiance and when those clouds roll in, it's a view best observed off its summit and surrounding jagged faces. But what a view it can summon!
Passing through Grasmere, Helm Crag sits above the village, not the highest peak but any means, but it sits on its own and provides a marvellous backdrop when viewed looking north from the lake. And invariably it offers the first introduction to a day, whether glittered in sunlight, or the mood swings of low cloud and the threat of mother nature deciding today's going to be a wet one.
Innominate Tarn is located toward the summit of Haystacks in the Western Fells. It offers a wonderful view of the Buttermere Valley and whilst the tarn itself is modest (in fact the word Innominate means 'unnamed') it's the location where Alfred wainwright's ashes were scattered and it presents a pertinent location for a man who savoured views and walks far more than the company of fellow travellers. Innominate Tarn is a place that minds its own business. In Wainwright's words 'A lonely spot of haunting charm...life seems good here'.
We have some additional posters in this series, which, as it stands, includes Yewbarrow and Wastwater, Blea Tarn and The Langdales, Lanty's Tarn and Blackbeck Tarn.