Our Duke of Edinburghs Award

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Our Duke of Edinburghs Award

• Cumbria 2005

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The Team!
Katie
Edd
Claire
Cat
Liv
Tom
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Tom Hyatt
I really enjoyed the expedition on a whole. I
especially liked the lakes, as I have never been
before. The terrain was challenging, but the
weather was the worst. Walking in the warm is
much harder than in the cold, shown by our three
breaks on our last day and one every 100m on the
first. Due to the beauty of the area, I felt
much more compelled to take the expedition at a
stroll, much different to previous ventures. I
was quite happy to just sit and doze off, but
unfortunately there was a expedition to be
walked, and 2 girls to every boy. A blessing? No.
Give them a stick, and they would sooner hit me
with it than use it to walk. Give them a whip...
on second thought, don't give them a whip.
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Edward Bishop
Firstly I would like to point out how great the
area of lake Ullswater is, I would definitely
recommend it to any walkers who like impressive
days. We got some amazing pictures in the morning
when the fog was still lying on the lake. We had
a great trip, climbing high and low and being hit
by nearly all weather conditions. The weather
wasn't particularly great but our high spirits
kept us going along with mine and Tom's singing
much to the girls annoyance! All in all I found
it really fun and gained a lot of experience
dealing with different weather types.
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Claire Jackson
The expedition was a thoroughly enjoyable
experience. Having never been to the Lakes
before, I found the scenery quite beautiful.
However, I found that we stopped more at the
demands of the boys to take a rest than to take
in our surroundings. Although the difficult
terrain and ever shifting weather, the expedition
was slightly tougher than expected. Often during
our first two days, we had to resort to flogging
to get those boys moving. However, roles were
reversed on the final day as they attempted to
take the trek at a sprint. On the whole we all
remained in good spirits throughout the 3 days
especially with the boys constantly serenading us
girls. What a pleasure or not.
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Catherine Gallagher
The silver award expedition was very enjoyable
and an invigorating experience. We had to learn
how to work together as a group to overcome
problems and hardships throughout the expedition.
I have some great memories and friendships from
this that I will keep for life! The scenery was
breath taking and Tom and Eddies singing raised
spirits when the weather strived to dampen them!
The rope swing when I nearly fell in the lake was
very amusing , the Frisbee playing and mine and
Katie's antics really made the trip for me!
Thanks!!
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Katie Rowbottom
Our D of E was fun and enjoyable. We had a great
laugh with the lads, who sang to us. The scenery
was amazing, we had to climb most of it though!
The campsites we stayed at were fairly quiet,
mainly because of the weather. One memory we all
have of our expedition was our little short cut
the ended up with us all in a marshy bog Eddie
sunk!! Ha ha!
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Olivia Sloss
The sights of the area around Ullswater were
amazing! We were able to see the full effect of
the surroundings as we were going up and down
hills all the way through our route. As a group
we worked well together although there was bound
to be conflict between the girls and the boys!
Tom and Eddies singing did not help! The second
day was the hardest as we had a 580ft climb on
our first leg which we all found extremely
tiring, especially as there was a strong wind
against us. It was an enjoyable experience and I
had to learn to persevere throughout the
expedition.
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Our Project

• We decided, given the large variety of glacial
  formations in the lake district that to not do a
  project on geographical formations would be a
  shame. Therefore, armed with a camera and a
  GCSE's worth of geography behind us, we set out
  to brave the unknown.

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A Corrie, e.g. Red Tarn, Helvelyn
NOT OUR PHOTO
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The Formation of a Corrie 1

• Ice is heavy so moves downhill.
• As it does it plucks rock away from the backwall.

Plucking
Ice Movement
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Formation of a Corrie 2

• Rocks in glacier are used as tools to erode the
  hollow and make it deeper. This process is known
  as abrasion

Abrasion makes the hollow deeper
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Formation of a Corrie 3

• Above the glacier frost shattering takes place
  (when water enters cracks in rocks and freezes so
  the rock cracks) adding more tools to the glacier

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Formation of a Corrie 4

• Ice leaves hollow, gets thinner as there is no
  hollow, erosion becomes less so a rock lip is
  left

Rock lip
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Formation of a Corrie 5

• The water left forms a lake called a Tarn. Tarns
  are extremely deep and cold

Tarn
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A Glacial Trough, eg Patterdale
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Glacial Troughs

• Glacial troughs are long, 10km long valleys.
  They are flat and on average 1km wide, with
  steep sides. As the name suggests they are
  formed by glacial erosion, i.e. A huge glacier
  slowly moving, carving a path in the landscape
  during the ice age.

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Hanging Valleys, eg Grisedale
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What is a hanging valley?

• Hanging valleys are tributaries, formed when
  smaller glaciers erode a valley halfway up the
  valley sides of a larger glacial trough, for
  example with Patterdale and Grisedale.

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A Ribbon Lake, eg Ullswater
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Formation of a Ribbon Lake

• A Ribbon Lake is formed when the glacier erodes
  the valley floor more than normal. This could be
  due to a greater amount of load in the base of
  the glacier, or from a softer rock forming the
  base of the trough.

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Truncated Spurs
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Formation of truncated spurs

• Truncated spurs are formed when a glacier erodes
  away the ends of the existing interlocking
  spurs, formed by a river. They usually form
  scree up their sides, which is rocky debris from
  the glacier.

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Misfit Stream
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Misfit what?

• A misfit stream is a stream that forms in the
  bottom of a glacial trough, but doesn't have
  sufficient water in it to reach the valley sides.

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Epilogue

• In all, the expedition was a success. How do we
  know? Because were all going onto do Gold!
  Wa-hey!

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Goodbye, Ullswater