This elongated tarn has a depth of about 50ft m. and contains trout and char.
Water is not abstracted directly from the tarn, but flows some distance downriver to an off-take weir.
The glaciation of the region has resulted in geologic features such as jagged peaks, tarns, and rockland.
In addition to fishing, the tarn was used as a source of ice in winter, and the ice house still stands nearby.
The tarn is a waterfilled corrie about 50 ft deep, this being enhanced by a dam.
The tarn, around 30 ft deep, sits in a long narrow bowl, looked down on by a collection of huge boulders.
An old zig-zag climbs from just below the tarn although, predictably, more modern walkers have felt a need to cut the corners.
I hope that we shall not have to have the physical control of traffic in our valleys and most popular tarns and lakes until there is no alternative.
