Dallam beech

The working day promised a Death by Powerpoint experience, with no opportunity for escape in pursuit of the Kendal Three at lunchtime. So I took my daily exercise first thing, and with the lengthening days, there is now enough daylight for a morning blip before heading to the office.

This is the highest point of Dallam Tower Park, just outside Milnthorpe. The view is east to the northern end of the limestone massif of Farleton Fell. The little copse in between sits on what looks like a glacial drumlin on the other side of the Bela Valley through which the A6 runs unseen from this viewpoint.

The Dallam Estate take care of their parkland trees, there are a few scattered veterans which have been blipped before in this journal. But the Estate plant new trees to replace those that come to the end of their long lives. This is one of several young beech trees planted in prominent locations.

As predicted the temperature dropped very low overnight, I didn't see a thermometer, but it was bitterly cold and way below freezing. The weekend's snow has been transformed into hard ice, and I would have been better off in boots and crampons than my work shoes as I came back down from the high point to the level of the Bela.