Delight in the Natural World:- This eco-blog by Judith Allinson features:* Settle Wildflower Walks * The Rainforest Fund * Rainforest Issues * Fundraising Ideas * Nature Conservation * Grasses, Mosses, Lichens and Algae * Settle * St John's Methodist Church and Hall, N Yorks * - Started on 1 Jan 2008
Saturday 25 September 2021
Saturday 4 September 2021
Walk and Pray for the Climate - Environment - Creationtide- 1 September 2021 - Settle - Whelpstone Crag
Churches Together in Settle run a "Walk and Pray for the Climate" on the First Day of the Month. We use material prepared by the website "Pray and Fast for the climate". - They also have some excellent material for use at a vigil for COP26
1st September is also the beginning of Creationtide.
For the sake of context and history:
5 Sept - is "Climate Sunday." We are having a special Service at St John's Church Settle - I with four others are leading that. Then after the service I hope to get on the Settle Carlisle train and go to Glasgow for THE National Climate Sunday Service to be held at Glasgow Cathedral at 4pm the same day!!
Back to our trip to Whelpstone
We pile into two cars at 5pm and drive 5 miles west from Settle, through Rathmell and up to the end of the road at the foot of Whelpstone Crag at the border with Lancashire. Here we leave the cars (at 303m above sea level) - pleased to have met the farmer on a quad bike as we left the cars. We walk to the two peaks of the crag at 362m (NE) and 371m. (SW)... So total height climbed = 70m. and total distance there and back 2 miles.
On the first summit - NE end of the Crag, looking SW to the Trig point (centre) on the main summit |
At the trigpoint on the main summit |
View back to the first summit (actually taken the previous evening when I came on a recce) In the distance Penyghent (left) and Fountains Fell (right) |
We read the introduction about Creationtide from the Prayer and Fast for the Climate Sheet. |
I play a tune on the summit |
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Same view as above - telephoto |
A few of the lichens that I found below the NE summit - the rocks on the right above:
Fuscidea cyathoides - chocolaty brown |
Hypogymnia physodes |
Any suggestions please: : |
And a wildflower at a gateway on the cart track as we leave the moorland and the vegetation becomes grassland: Gnaphalium uliginosum - Marsh Cudweed
If you would like to join us on 1 October do email info@ctisad.org.uk