While we went up Birkhouse Moor and Catstycam, Tom took the opportunity to explore the Greenside Mine spoil heaps up Swart Beck and Glenridding Beck.
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| The spoil heaps overlooking Glenridding Beck. |
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| Carline thistle and alpine lady's mantle on the side of the path. |
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| Swart Beck forming a shelter for many ferns and mosses (fir clubmoss, top right). |
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| Common butterwort surviving on wet, vertical rock slopes. |
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| The mine spoil looking up Sticks Gill and down Swart Beck. |
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| Barytes (white) and galena (grey-blue). Lead and Silver were mined at Greenside Mine in their thousands of tons, at one time the mine was England's largest producer. |
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| Spoil flora- mountain sorrel, juniper and yellow mountain saxifrage. |
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| Cushions of yellow mountain saxifrage. |
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| Cobbled surface- remnants of its mining past now covered in map lichens. |
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| Surrounding the spoil were wet flushes populated by bog asphodel. |
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| Overlooking Catstycam from Stang End. |
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