Lovely tarn with a small slate built boathouse at the western end. Access from a public footpaths, either directly from the layby at High Underbarrow, or slightly less.
5/19/2020 · I was introduced to Gurnal Dubs in 2019 when a good friend said to me that it would be a great place to try my first wild swim . He was right. It’s a bonny little body of water that’s great for a paddle/ swim or to let your dog/s have a cool off.
8/30/2020 · The top right photo was this afternoon at Gurnal Dubs , just under 300m altitude, a leg-punishing run up to it, followed by a 500m ((ish), that was funny my autocorrect wanted to amend that to fish!!) swim and a happy, galumphing dash back down (I neither run nor swim elegantly).
12/4/2020 · Over the stile to Gurnal Dubs The Swim . As we reached the western end of the tarn a woman was exiting via the stone steps after a swim . Gurnal Dubs . We got chatting and I encouraged Katie (a regular wild swimmer) to don her swimming costume for a dip. Katie taking a short swim in Gurnal Dubs .
Swimming Home. The journey starts at Loweswater and meanders back in a generous flourish across the Lake District to Gurnal Dubs near Kendal, linking twelve tarns and lakes . The stretches of water swum in between might be thought of as the manifestation above ground of a deeper subterranean river which flows home. Blue sky, sun, warmth, a hint …
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Walk to Gurnal Dubs and Potter Tarn | The Westmorland Gazette, 7/23/2017 · Wild Swimming . …. is just another way and a more modern way of saying skinny dipping (although I do wear my cossie) ….. But it is fun. I went for a walk up a local fell and up and over Potter Fell, to Potter tarn, a reservoir for the local papermill. From there I climb a little bit further over to Gurnal Dubs .
Gurnal Dubs is a popular place for recreational fishing and the licenses are managed by the Kent Angling Association. It is located to the west of Ulgraves. The tarn is home to a boathouse that was renovated in 1985. Location: Gurnal Dubs . Potter Fell, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
For me, swimming in a swirling dub amidst a remote Lake District fell is the epitome of wild swimming . On our guided swims, it’s the wild swimming in the pools of the Lake District that people love. It’s the kind of swimming you may have done as a child and it is an absolute delight to rediscover it as an adult.
Go through the gate and when the tarn, Gurnal Dubs reservoir, is seen ahead, take a track through the heather on the left, which leads to the tarn. Cross the dam. Do not follow the outfall stream but keep on in the same direction until reaching a stile in a stone wall, which you cross. Potter Tarn can be seen ahead.
Name: Gurnal Dubs , South Lakeland Place type: Inland Water Location: Grid Ref: SD 5030 9915 • X/Y co-ords: 350309, 499151 • Lat/Long: 54.38539886,-2.76665552
