Mitredale, eskdale – a very big hill

These piccures is from my walk last sunday with Mum and TNP and come from TNP’s camera! We went to a place called Eskdale and walked on a part called Mitredale. Up a very big hill! As always, click to bigify!

It has a miniature steam train, we seed the train but didn’t get a piccure but here it’s tracks anyway.

Me and TNP did some posing.

I love going through gates and I rush up to them whenever we come across one!

Come on Mum, nearly at the top!

Ah, we made it!

We found a sheep skeleton, poor thing must have perished during the sold snowy winter. At least it will have beed a bit of food for the wild animals.

Here how I got all muddy. I followed Mum and TNP through the boggy bits and then we went across the stepping stones on this little creek and then I turned around and walked all along it and got all muddy and cool looking!

The forestry commission chopped down a lot of trees! They trying to get rid of some of the fast growing pines etc and get back to having our natural slow growing trees like oak and beech and stuff like that. Peoples always seem to be trying to correct their own mistakes huh?

Next we had to go through some sheep and cow ‘farrow’ fields where they used to be, cos of the winter and rain they all churned up and muddy, Mum found it hard going! TNP ever so nicely tooked a photo of her. You can bet she said some HBO words at his choice of path. Later we met a farmer waiting to shoot a bird and he said we had gone the wrong way.

We had to go through a farm with some cows and chickens and a Working sheepdog be hiding in a doorway, when I went past he come out and bit me on my neck! No warning or grow or nothing! How rude! These WSD’s often has no socialisation with other dogs. Of course I has so much fur it didn’t hurt at all, just surprised me. I very good with my calming body language so he didn’t keep at me and let us walk on by after Mum shoo’d him.

Ah, home time!

~lickies, Ludo