| Carry on across a hollow containing two tarns named Kirkfell Tarn to the North Top of Kirk Fell. |
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| The sacred lake didn't look any different from a thousand other inhospitable high-altitude tarns found everywhere in Tibet. |
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| The tall pillar of stones on the summit is a well-known landmark and there are great views of the valleys and tarns below. |
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| You will enjoy dramatic views of waterfalls, valleys, tarns and rugged rock formations. |
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| There were a few little tarns, fragments of limestone pavement, swallow holes and sight of Malham Tarn. |
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| I loved the flattish grassy terrain at the top with numerous tarns of slate-grey water fringed with tussock and rocks. |
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| Uplifted in geological time and repeatedly glaciated, it is a large relatively flat landscape pitted with thousands of lake and tarns. |
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| From the top of the ridge you can see a number of mountain tarns and look down into the Wairau Valley on the other side. |
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| The lake is the deepest among all tarns and lakes of Kashmir. |
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| A spectacular six-foot dragonfly will also be installed on one of the tarns in the forest just another addition to the 90 permanent sculptures on show every year. |
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| The way is rock-strewn and bare, with tarns the size of footbaths. |
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| Coots, ducks and flamingos clustered around the fringes of shallow tarns whilst great flocks of upland geese, buff-necked ibis and lapwing settled on the plains to feed. |
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| In Cumbria we have a total of between 20 and 22 lakes and tarns. |
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| The rest of the North Western Fells bear no tarns worthy of the name, but Dale Head has two. |
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| Depending upon recent rainfall there may be anything from two to five tarns in evidence on the ground. |
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| The higher ground is rocky heathland, with frequent tarns, while the lower ground supports pasture and woodland. |
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| It is made up of a number of hills, small tarns and the settlements of Grizedale and Satterthwaite. |
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| A small rocky spur, Rib End, runs down from the summit plateau to the tarns at the depression. |
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| Its summit is interesting and contains a number of attractive rock formations and tarns. |
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| The beauty of the scene is completed by a succession of rocky tops and nestling tarns, until the high point is reached at the western end. |
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| The fells in this area are rounded Skiddaw slate, with few tarns and relatively few rock faces. |
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| Beyond Slight Side is a rough upland with many craggy tops and a number of tarns, before the southward descent finally ends in Lower Eskdale. |
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| An alternative route heads directly north across Knoutberry Haw to pass Whernside Tarns and reaches the Craven Way at Boot of the Wold. |
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| All the others such as Windermere, Coniston Water, Ullswater and Buttermere are meres, tarns and waters, with mere being the least common and water being the most common. |
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| The valley is notable in being one of few major valleys in the Lake District not to have its own lake, although several tarns are perched above the valley sides. |
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| Smooth sweeping slopes predominate with a minimum of tarns or crags. |
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| Between the summits is Kirkfell Tarn, actually two small tarns. |
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| Feeding the lake from either side of Mardale Ill Bell are the corrie tarns of Small Water and Blea Water, the latter being the deepest tarn in Lakeland. |
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| However, the ridge has two additional fells, numerous subsidiary tops and several small tarns making its traverse an appealing and challenging walk. |
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| Between the two is the col of Three Tarns, named for the small pools in the depression. |
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| Southward of Bowfell the ridge falls steeply to Three Tarns, the col separating it from Crinkle Crags. |
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| Smaller lakes known as tarns occupy glacial cirques at higher elevations. |
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| In the area to the north of Sticks Pass the Birker Fell andesites are overlain by the Lincomb Tarns Tuff Formation. |
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| On Clough Head a small sheet of the Thirlmere Tuff Member covers the summit of the fell, a member of the Lincomb Tarns Formation. |
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| This succession of ignimbrites is known as the Lincomb Tarns Tuff Formation, the most widespread volcanic formation in the Lake District. |
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| Overlying the Lincomb Tarns Formation are rocks of the Esk Pike Sandstone Formation. |
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| High White Stones is an outcrop of the Lincomb Tarns Formation. |
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| Other routes from Langdale climb via Rossett Gill and Three Tarns. |
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| Overlying those deposits are rocks of the Lincomb Tarns Tuff Formation, found on the eastern and western sides of the fell and the top of the southern ridge. |
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