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From today I will be away for a week and with no wifi. With luck I will return with some new pic's.

Final shots from this walk today.

More slate buildings ahead.

  

Through the gap.

  

Close up.

 

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Curved track.

  

Looking down the valley.

  

Trees waiting for Spring.

  

River rushing down the valley.

 

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Slate fence. The village ruins in the background.

  

Moss hills.

  

Track back through the forest.

  

Time to drop below the snowline and follow the track back down.

 

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Slate upright.

Looks like a storage pit!

  

Going to the right today.

  

Crumbling slate fence.

  

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Track down to the village ruins.

  

Slate "glacier". There is a massive hole in the gorund somewhere close by and this is just the waste! 

  

Looking back along one of the waste levels.

 

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Fence posts.

  

Workshop or dressing shed. All the slate walls are built without mortar!

 

 

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Over the fence is the entrance to another mine, quite well hidden.

Mother natures sculpture.

  

Another small quarry in the distance.

  

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Side view of the centre section.

  

Close up of the sluice gate.

  

Distant snowy peak.

 

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Time to retrace my steps.

   

View down the lake.

  

Far corner.

 

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Water dripping from the overhang.

  

Winter casualty.

  

Small falls.

 

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Reflections.

  

Centre walkway. Divides the lake into two, without the water it would probably look quite unstable.

Large overhang.

 

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Reflections.

  

Snowy corner.

  

Lakeside tree. A lone non fur.

 

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Sluice control.

  

Reflections

  

A corner of the lake.

 

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More ruins.

  

Finally we arrive at the lake which of course was once a massive hole in the ground where slate was quarried. Water from here  went down the valley to the dam we passed on the way up.

Reflections on the lake.

 

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The snow picks out the details nicely.

  

My name in the snow.

  

Inside one of the ruins.

 

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In the background the chimney at the old engine house.

  

Workshop ruins.

  

Building ruins at the lake.