WalkLakes Blog
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11/04/18
• Help restore the Keswick to Threlkeld Path
The path from Keswick to Threlkeld along the old railway line was badly damaged by Storm Desmond. You can help restore it.
The Keswick to Threlkeld path along the old railway line was badly damaged in 2015 by Storm Desmond with two of the old railway bridges that crossed the River Greta being washed away, another bridge left at risk of collapse, and around 200 metres of the path surface disappeared into the floodwaters. read more ... |
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02/04/18
• Walking the High Fells
There is still snow on the high fells like Helvellyn and Scafell Pike with more forecast. These are not conditions for inexperienced walkers.
With April upon us and the Easter weekend coming to a close you might think that by now the high fells like Helvellyn and Scafell Pike were good places to walk up for a strenuous outing. This year however things are a bit different as we still have snow on the tops with more heavy snow forecast to fall today. read more ... |
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07/03/18
• Retrospective Geotagging
If your camera doesn't have a built in GPS you can geotag your photos afterwards if you've got a GPS track handy.
Some modern cameras, and a lot of mobile phones, geotag photos which is to say that they add the location where the photo was taken to the EXIF data recorded with the photo. Of course doing that requires that the camera has a GPS built in. Phones pretty much always do, cameras not so much. read more ... |
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28/02/18
• New Tiles on our GPS Mapping Application
We've added a new source of aerial photography tiles to our GPX mapping application.
If you use our GPS mapping application and you have logged in then you used to be able to use aerial photography for Bing. These tiles are often very good, for example they are in the Lake District, but elsewhere in the UK there are gaps with no tiles present at some zoom levels and/or the best tiles being satellite rather than aerial photography. read more ... |
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20/02/18
• Thirlmere Zip Wire Application Withdrawn
The proposal to string eight zip wires over Thirlmere has been withdrawn!
As we reported back in November a planning application had been submitted to the Lake District National Park Authority to string eight zip wires over Thirlmere and it was, as we predicted, controversial. read more ... |
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08/02/18
• Wild Camping in the Lake District
We had an email today from someone asking us about wild camping in the Lake District and whether it was legal. It's an interesting question.
We had an email today from someone asking us about wild camping in the Lake District and whether it was legal. It's an interesting question. read more ... |
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