Coniston Old Man and Coppermine Valley


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Posted by Andrew Jones on May 23, 2004 at 21:32:21 from 84.66.56.105 user AndrewDJ.

Last weekend I had the great privielege of climbing from Coniston, up through Coppermine Valley to the summit of Old Man - very much in the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons.
On the way up the the evidence of the centuries of mining and quarrying in the area was widely evident. Claire Kendall-Prices's excellent book gives an insight into what some of these workings were but I was most intrigued by a pair of great steel cables running up the hillside. These had evidently been supported on, now toppled, towers - something along the lines of a ski-lift, but without any evidence of pulleys (and an interesting join in the cables that would have made tehm useless over pulleys). Does anyone know what these were and how they operated?

I took a photograph which should be available from the links.



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