Autumn is in the air.

There is a bit more colour creeping in to the landscape at the moment. The greens of summer are slowly being replaced by the russet tones of autumn. This was evident in a walk I went on at the weekend in the Lake District.

There can be no more beautiful place than Borrowdale at this time of year. Give it another couple more weeks and the trees will be ablaze with colour which, let's face it, is every photographers dream. Also you will have the added bonus of increasing water levels in the becks and rivers, making the summer dry spell a distant memory.

There isn't really much point in describing a walking route as any path in these parts will lead you on a journey of both beauty and adventure and will, invariably, take you up on to the old Honister Mine track. This track was used for centuries by the workers of Borrowdale as they made their daily trudge up to The Honister Slates Mines where they did a full days graft before returning back to the safety of their valley dwellings. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least five paths leading up there so all of these can be either reversed or turned in to a circuit of your liking and abilities.

Alfred Wainwright described this part of The Lakes as a 'pageant of beauty from end to end' and who would or could argue with him?