Josh and I went off to Wasdale to see if Nether beck had anything to offer. It had come up in discussion with Ned and a few others, also the map had waterfalls marked on it. So off we went in search of new lines.

The beck runs steeply down from Scoat tarn to the north of Wastwater. There are two sections that were obvious on the map. The one furthest up stream starts promisingly but quickly drops into a deep gorge with rock landings at the bottom of the drops 15-20 foot side walls and the odd lodged tree. Hard to imagine that however much water enters this gorge, that it will become possible. We still had fun swimming and swinging our way down.

After the top gorge is a long flat section until you meet a stile and new fence. This section is the more obvious on to paddle as it is closer to the road, starts nice and open at GR (NY 159 074) and has a greater potential for paddling.

The first few drops look straight forward and good to go the beck trundles down to a 20 ft drop which plunges in to a gorge. You will see this when you walk in it has a bit of rope next to it from gorge walking groups. To look at it is a spectacular drop with a narrow entry. Sadly the landing is onto a rock shelf and makes it impossible?!

 The rest of the gorge is steep and rock with a few rocks and drops!

Again it was hard to tell what they would be like with water in. So I guess another look will need to take place after heavy rain. Who knows it may all work, but you will be passing other great rivers to get here. We also looked at Over beck just next door not allot to report apart from 2 drops the first most upstream one is good to go but is it worth it? And the larger second one has a questionable landing. Cheers.

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