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Date: 11 March 2005 20:34:04
Alfred Wainwright, if you haven't heard of him, was probably just that. He loved the hills, especially those of the Lake District, which he knew probably better than the back of his hand. He wrote his famous (in hillwalking circles) pictorial guides to the area describing every intimate detail of his beloved fells. A man after my own heart!!! His favourite spot was beside Inominate Tarn, which nestles high above the Buttermere valley in the crags of Haystacks. It is a quiet place, perched high up above Buttermere and Ennerdale, overlooking Great Gable, and is definately deserving of such praise. It is here that his ashes were scattered after his death in 1991.
However, a recent article in the Manchester Evening News (I say recent, the end of February, but its not easily found in Swansea and so articles of interest find their way here in the post!) highlights suggestions that have been made to rename this beasutifull place Wainwrights Tarn. Undoubtedly this would leave old Alfred turning in his grave! Part of the history of these fells and tarns is their names, which are nothing if not unique! And, apart from anything else, if the name was changed, then the very guides that Wainwright produced himself would be outdated. This has to be the best reason to keep the Inominate Tarn 'nameless' that there is.