Cauldron Snout from Langdon Beck

Another early morning start at 7:30. On the road to Cow Green Reservoir about half a mile from Langdon Beck is a small layby at the entrance gate to Widdy Bank Farm where you can start the walk (marked on top right of map). The same group of horses greeted me that I saw a couple of days earlier on my way to Cow Green. When I approached the wall to take a photo of the crag with Mocking Cave in the distance (photo #4 - numbers include the map) I frightened a Curlew away and one of the chicks was sitting right in front of me!

Approaching Widdy Bank Farm (photo #7) the wind was very strong coming towards me. I kept consoling myself by saying that I would have an easier way back. Widdy Bank Farm is in a really beautiful setting. The approach is wonderful. Just after you go through the farm yard you can make your way to the river and follow it upstream towards Cauldron Snout. The weather got better and better but the wind was still strong coming towards me. Photo #12 is a close up of one of the difficult boulder fields you have to climb across which really slows you down. On the other side of the river is Cronkley Fell where I had my picnic a few days earlier and was looking down onto the riverside walk (photo #36 is a good shot of it taken on the way back). The further photos show that it is a Jekyll and Hyde walk. Sometimes comfortable board walks across the wet and muddy patches and sometimes a hard clamber across boulders. However the walk with the river always on your side is magnificent and really worth the effort. Eventually the Hu.t came insight on top of the cliff where I sat and took photographs when I walked to Cauldron Snout from Cow Green Reservoir.  So I knew that I was almost there (photo #20 on the top left of the ridge). When you round the last corner you can finally see Cauldron Snout. I really had a good rest there and took a lot of time to take photos from various angles. Some with ND Filters to have a long exposure. The strong wind however was blowing the spray towards the camera which didn´t make it easier. On the last photo of the waterfall you can see two walkers at the top if you zoom in photo #30. 

Photo #29 is showing the cliff with the lone tree below the hut where I scrambled to take the photos with the fisheye lens a few days earlier. The walk back is equally rewarding you with fantastic scenery. I arrived back at the car at 14:00 where the horses were waiting for me together with a herd of black and white Belted Galloway cows further towards Cow Green.  I had a long, strenuous but really rewarding walk.