Middle Fell Seatallan & Buckbarrow GREENDALE (The Lake District)

GPX Download Of Route - https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JQT... Joss Naylor MBE was an Lake District fell runner who set many long-distance records. He became known as the "King of the Fells" or simply the "Iron Man". Joss was born in 1936 in Middle Row Farm, Wasdale Head, and attended school in Gosforth, Cumbria, leaving at 15 to work on the family farm. Injuries in his youth led to operations aged 19 to remove cartilage from his right knee and aged 22 to remove two discs from his back. He took up running in 1960 aged 24, winning his first race, the Mountain Trial, in 1966. In 1971, he completed the Bob Graham Round, only the sixth person to do so, and continued to win races and set records through the 1970s and 1980s. Joss married Mary Downie in 1963, and they had three children. In 1978, following medical advice that his back was deteriorating, he reduced his farming activities (selling his cattle but retaining his sheep), and took a job training apprentices at Windscale. In his seventies, he started spending winters in Spain, as cold weather caused circulation problems in his legs. After a period of ill health, including a stroke, Joss sadly died at a care home in Gosforth, Cumbria, on 28 June 2024, at the age of 88. Greendale Gill breaches the high ground of Middle Fell and Buckbarrow. The outfall of Greendale Tarn is joined by Tongues Gills and numerous becks draining Buckbarrow Moss which then tumbles down between the fells carving a narrow ravine with pleasant cascades creating small waterfalls and plunge pools. Whilst Middle Fell and Buckbarrow are rough and knotted, typical of ice scoured terrain. Seatallan behind them is more rounded with much grass and moss. Above Greendale Tarn peaty marsh lies on the saddle with Middle Fell. Across the Wasdale valley the Scafell range stands out, the view stunning and memorable. Middle Fell is possibly the best vantage point of all. The fells here are quiet, their summits less popular than the likes of Great Gable, Scafell Pike, and Yewbarrow. To the north east of Buckbarrow is the Queen Mother's Cairn. Joss Naylor rebuilt the cairn for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday on the site of an ancient cairn which marked a burial site or tumulus. #cinematic #dji #drone #djimini2se #mountains #mountain #rivers #hills #hillwalking #fellwalking #waterfall #lakedistrict #cumbria #lakedistrictnationalpark #nature #hiking #getoutside #wainwrights #birketts #hewitts #marilyns #wellbeing #alfredwainwright #billbirkett #liveyourbestlife #mentalhealthmatters #wasdale #wasdalehead #jossnaylor #greendale #middlefell