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This will be the last excursion of our season and is a short evening stroll followed by a drink or a meal.

Meet 6.00 pm at Wheatsheaf car park NY 172 305. Leader Phil Davies. Alternative parking at Embleton Spa Hotel car park, if you intend to go there afterwards, or park down the hill towards the village hall and its car park near the A66 junction.

The quarry, a diorite intrusion in the Kirkstile formation, was worked 1910 – 1950 and is a substantial sight tucked away above Embleton but easily accessible. We will make our way up a track from the Embleton road, spend up to an hour there and then return to the Embleton Spa Hotel or the Wheatsheaf for a meal or a drink.

SATURDAY 21 AUGUST FELL END CLOUDS, RAVENSTONEDALE Leader Sylvia Woodhead
Meet at 10.30 am at Fell End Quarry on The Street just off A683, NY 734006 c. 5 km walk over upland
limestone country, looking at the effect of the Dent Line on limestone scenery.

Parts of the walk are on steep and rocky ground which can be slippery when wet. It is an upland area which may be windy and exposed. A leaflet about the geology of the area will be available on the day.

SATURDAY 21 AUGUST FELL END CLOUDS, RAVENSTONEDALE Leader Sylvia Woodhead
Meet at 10.30 am at Fell End Quarry on The Street just off A683, NY 734006 c. 8 km walk over upland
limestone country, looking at the effect of the Dent Line on limestone scenery.

WEDNESDAY 4 AUGUST

WATCH HILL, COCKERMOUTH

Leader Phil Davies

Meet at 6.00 pm Cockermouth School lay by/car park NY 130310

Details and notes to follow

WEDNESDAY 4 AUGUST

Leader Phil Davies

Meet at 6.00 pm Cockermouth School lay by/car park, western end, NY 130310

We will examine small outcrops of the Ordovician Watch Hill Formation within the Skiddaw Group and intrusive diorite bodies that are dotted about the fell. Watch Hill is a lovely walk on a summer evening and a good vantage point to view the landscape of the northern Lake District as well as towards limestone country.

SUNDAY 18 JULY

CAUSEY PIKE

Leader to be confirmed.

Easy, lower half day or continue for a strenuous full day.

Meet at 10.00 am at Uzzicar, in Newlands by the site of the old Barrow Mine NY 232217.

Participants will have the option of a half day excursion of 2 km of walking and 150 m of ascent or continuing on the full day fairly strenuous trip of 6 km of walking and about 500 m of ascent. If the weather is poor the trip will be half a day at the lower localities which are on good tracks, footpaths and on steep stream sides. The higher localities are on a fell walk of paths, tracks and rocky sections.

The trip has several aims: to show the olistostromic Buttermere Formation and Robinson Member of the Skiddaw Group, the normal siltstone facies of the Skiddaw Group (Kirkstile Slates) and its alteration by hornfelsing, and thrusting of the hornfelsed strata over unaltered rock. We will visit turbidite sequences with good way-up evidence plus inverted and right way-up strata.