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A green oasis in largely brownish surroundings. Looking along the South Tyne valley beyond.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>Track climbing from Reckersgill Sike.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.6km<br/>The gill, here flowing in the left of the picture, has two channels at this point. The western one has currently nothing flowing in it but a lagoon remaining from when water levels were higher.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.7km<br/>Cross Gill is an important tributary of the South Tyne, draining a large area to the east of Cross Fell.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.7km<br/>Here the stony bed of the gill widens considerably compared with its usual tight confines.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.8km<br/>The confluence with Duffergill Burn, which enters via a small waterfall (left of picture).
©Andrew Smith
Dist:0.9km<br/>
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.9km<br/>
©Les Hull
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>
©Les Hull
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>Howgillsike with Ashgillside in the background.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:1.1km east<br/>
©Les Hull
Dist:1.1km east<br/>Taken from the minor road leading to Hole House Farm and the canoeists' put-in for the far Upper South Tyne. Hill fog was thick and extensive on the east side of the Tyne/Tees watershed, but the cloud was a little higher on the Alston side seen here.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:1.1km east<br/>
©Les Hull
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>Beside the footbridge on the South Tyne Trail, above the confluence of Ash Gill with the South Tyne.
©Andrew Smith
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>The footbridge marked on the 1:25000 map is no longer present.
©Andrew Smith

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