jus wondering if anyone had any experience of this to offer ?
I'm not brave/hardy /stupid enough to swim across it on my own because of it's depth and reputed coldness in midde but think a swim along the shore line would be a nice experience beneath the towering screes and rolling skies
sure I saw a gaggle of divers there once so mus' be ok
Done a bit of paddlin' there.
Swum it plenty of times......
First time as a 10yr old, it scared the trunks of me!!!!
Very dark, black & freezing cold...
Englands deepest Lake I think?...
Happier swims, have been mid/post Bob Graham etc...
Very Special piece of Water..
I'll be in bathing mode again this (mid) July!
See you there?
Miss Muddy Paws Dad....
Not clever & often stupid..
It's on my 'To do' List, before i expire
Hills and Guinness!
Surely its depth is irrelavant beyond 2 meters. I once swam off the back of a yacht in the med and there were comments from the kids that it was too deep to swim in because it was 3000m deepOriginally Posted by trilathon
but yes i would imagine it is very cold brrrrrrr!
and impressive under the screes. I've paddles it a few times.
probably looking for the bodies of cross lake swimmers
I haven't swam Wast Water but I've swam Coniston Water and Windemere loads of times (albeit usually in the June to September corner of the year). I have a run of about 7 miles around the bottom of Coniston that culminates in a 700 meter swim diagonally across to Peel Island and then across the lake for maybe another 700 meters or so back to my starting point. I don't wear a wet suit or anything clever like that but just my running togs.
See the 3rd run in this link Coniston run
Its a bit cold but great fun..... especially on a warm day. I'm not sure depth noticeably changes the temperature - Coniston is what 150 meters plus deep in the middle and it was just as cold out there as it was in the shallows
Last edited by Stolly; 19-05-2009 at 09:05 AM.
Nope not swum, (swam?) in that one but spent 4 hours swimming in Ullswater last May as part of the Hellvelyn Triathlon training camp and it was FREEZING. Horrible. Cold, dark, bumpy and scary!
I swim like a brick so I'd never even consider dipping in a Lakes lake. Hats off to the lot of yous, I'm impressed!
Hmmm, divers in Wast Water. It's quite a popular spot for that due to the depth. Images.sure I saw a gaggle of divers there once so mus' be ok
Some beautiful pics on there Marvin, especially like the 'natural symmetry' one
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