Wasdale Fairy Pool/ crystal clear water/ The Lake District

good afternoon everyone joining me today i'm on the hot days of the year in august 2022 so uh instead of climbing mountains with a backpack i've decided to go for a little while swim uh i'm in the wasdale valley and um just part uh wasdale head uh that's ill gill head behind and um there is uh lingmill here i've got a great gable that i'm looking at and then um that'll be uh kirkfell and uh this one here will be you barrel um i'm heading to ling mel back to search for a uh bit of a waterfalls and uh a bit of a pool uh it's a click crystal clear pool i think so um yeah i've never been here before i'm heading towards burnt weight farm through the mo on the moses trod path so and then i'm gonna branch off a bit uh off the path and then uh hopefully come across the um cools um when i get nearer okay enjoy the video and i'll see you in a bit right uh keep following the gravel path um from the bridge uh and then it'll um you'll come to a fork in the path so you want to take the right one and then just keep in line with the river take the left one that one goes up to um stei hetan and you'll be climbing uh towards um the middle of great gable and kirkfell so you don't want to be doing that especially on a day like this so there's a series of little pooled but uh the main event is just ahead right um so i was just walking up and um looking for the pools and concentrating and um four uh jets have just flew over so um i'll show you the cop the videos but it might not look very good but um you're ever in one of those moments in the late this trip when you know you you've got your camera out and you're all prepared for something and you put it away the minute you put it away something happens you can't get your phone out in time so for them luckily i got two of them on camera so hopefully they came out quite good but um so what i've realized is this um this pool i'm looking for is actually quite far um it's not you don't think it's as far when you're on the uh looking at other um films that i've seen in videos but it's probably about a mile and a half up the valley it's red hot and i'm sweating as well sweating cut sweating drips sweating everything's sweating so there is a few pools and um but i think i'm coming to it you probably think you're going a bit too far as well um but once you um it's like if you can see it it's like one main tree in the valley you've got to go past that uh because you probably think you're going you've if you probably think you've gone too far but actually you haven't uh but i'm now on the other side of the river um and i think it's here well this rock is uh there's a pool though with the two waterfalls so that's what i'm aiming for but um probably half or maybe i'd say two thirds up the valley to find it so it's quite difficult to find so but it looks stunning if i'm honest so can't wait to get in i need it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] well that was the uh while swimming pool in ling ling melbeck just sort of shown you the valley to give you a sense of where i kind of am there's the obvious tree in the valley um what i will say is what is what was amazing about it is i haven't seen one person all right it's a friday but it's a hell of a day in august and i i was all alone on my own so it's so nice to be like off the beaten track on my own and uh just have it all to myself um you can park in warsdale for free and um there are a few there is a refreshment like a pub there's a pub there with a little barn with a shop and things so there's not much but there's that and it is right down the end of a valley so um hope you enjoyed the video and uh stay tuned for the next one stay safe in the mountains

Channel: The Woollybackwalker

Views: 9,548

Keywords: Wasdale, Wasdale wild swim, Wasdale wild swimming, Wasdale fairy pool, Fairy pools, Fairy pool, Wasdale fairy pools, Wasdale valley, Lingmell beck, The Lake District, Lake District

Id: 0P4UOjNGuRo

Length: 8min 18sec (498 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 16 2022