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Oscar the Mountain dog.... 01/04/2007 too 03/12/2018

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  Oscar joined us, June 2007, as an older pup of 8wks.He was from a litter of eight from his parents home in Woodland,here in South Cumbria  He took to family and hill life as just another step,trained easy and never on the lead in all his hill days.He loved the snow and without asking just lifted a leg so i could put his pack on The pictures are from his home in the Lakes hill and the mountains of Scotland,he completed a round of the Wainwright's and at a guess a hundred or so Munros  "All his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing "   "A heart of gold stopped beating,   Two shinning eyes at rest.    God broke our hearts to prove to us,    He only takes the best. "My sunshine doesn't come from the skies,  It comes from the love in my dogs eyes." "You're only a dog, old fellow;  a dog,

Kentmere Horseshoe and wild camp,including stunning sunset,night shots, sunrise an inversion and brocken spectres ..Nov 2018

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  With the problems of general life, this year,ive not got out as much with Lee as i normally does it was good to meet up again I arrived early and waited for Lee at the weir and then made our way up the Kentmere valley in just one car.I had seen some inversion and driven through some fog on the way here,as we climbed you could see these inversions in the distance  Upper Kentmere valley was still asleep as we passed the last few, dream location houses,and headed up towards to the high ground  We decided to camp early and choose Harter fell,thinking it would help us get an inversion in the morning.The forecast was for strong Easterly winds as the day went ones we found a nice spot just off the summit high ground  Shelter pitched we went for a stroll down to Little Harter fell and then pick up some water as we returned  Sunset is early this time of years four pm saw us wonder up to the summit to take in the views, they did not dis