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This narrow, twisting and very steep country lane runs from Ambleside at the northern end of Windermere up to the top of the Kirkstone Pass. It is very appropriately known as The Struggle.
I took this dramatic shot of the "Struggle", which is the name of the top section of the road out of Ambleside up to the Kirkstone Pass, as I drove up the Pass having come through the cloud inversion engulfing the Western Lake District.
You can see the cloud down in the Windermere Valley with the iconic twisting Kirkstone Road descending into the murk. It was a very close call wether to post the colour version of this or the mono, but I thought the mono was slightly more dramatic. This was the first inkling that my day out in there Lakes could get interesting!
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I took a fair few images of seed heads today but nothing really struck me. I have a certain look in mind but I just can't pull it off …. yet!
So this is a kinda 'make do' shot for now :)
Just off the top of The Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District the road down to Ambleside is called The Struggle and for no bad reason, this is where you'll find this stunted Larch Tree in its full Autumn Colour!
This appropriately named winding and steep country road helps to link Lake Windermere with Ullswater, via the Kirkstone Pass. The road commences in Ambleside and ends near the Kirkstone Pass Inn, where this shot was taken.
The Struggle is a road in the Lake District that runs from the Kirkstone Pass Inn, to the town of Ambleside on Lake Windermere.
We drove it just for the hell of it.
Taken from the Kirkstone Pass Inn.
This image was taken on my way back from Scotland in January. The steep road is affectionately known as 'The Struggle' and connects the Kirkstone Pass with Ambleside on Lake Windermere, which can be seen in the distance. I know the sign says 'road closed' and 'winter conditions can be hazardous' but my Land Rover Discovery, set in ice mode and low range third, had no trouble making it down the very slippy hill, and I wasn't the first as you can see from the tyre tracks!
This aptly named road rises 1,266 feet in 2.8 miles from Ambleside at the bottom, to Kirkstone Pass at the top. A grade one climb on the tour of Britain cycle route. The beautiful lake Windemere is nestled under the rising morning mist.
At the latter end of our lake dostrict adventure we took a drive up between Ambleside and the Kirkstone pass on a road known as "The Struggle"....half way up the sky started to look a little tasty so we sought an subject and composition to suit the colourful sky...this fascinating looking tree was about the best we could do given the location
I have been meaning to stop off and photograph this old hut on the way up "The Struggle" from Ambleside to Kirkstone for a very, very long time. It was quiet today so I thought I would take a quick look and see if it had the potential I felt it did.
I am pretty pleased with the result, but could use spending a little more time here at a different time of day and a different time of the year - autumn perhaps.
One minute in thick mist driving over Kirkstone Pass. The next beautiful sunshine as I descended the struggle. The pass is covered in the thick band of mist, with High Great Knott as a backdrop. The near mist was happily drifting down the valley towards Ambleside.
They don't care who you are. They know they've got the Right of Way. :)
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The floods in Cumbria mean that some of the main roads in the Lake District have been closed, which has meant using the 'The Struggle' portion of the Kirkstone Pass to get around.
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A steep little road that runs parallel to Stock Gill linking Ambleside to Ullswater and Penrith. Windermere in the valley bottom.
Looking down the road known as "The Struggle" towards Derwentwater. Taken from the top of the Kirkstone Pass.
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The notorious 'Struggle' is a rough, tough part of the Kirkland Pass with a gradient of 1 in 4.
The Kirkstone Pass has an altitude of 1,489 feet and it is the Lake District’s highest pass open to motor traffic and often the first to close after snowfall.
At 1,489 feet (454 m), Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District is the areas highest pass that you can drive across by road, along the A592 road between Ambleside, near Windermere and Glenridding on the shores of Ullswater.
Parts of the pass have a gradient approaching 1 in 4 and not for nothing is one section of the pass named 'The Struggle'!
This is the view down into Patterdale, with Brothers Water in the far distance.
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ive recently read about cycle routes in LD and came across the ultimate challenge - route called the struggle near ambleside. long ascent with bits 15-20% so when i accidentally found myself driving from kirkstone pass and saw the signpost 'ambleside by the struggle' i turned from the main road and drove it (down).
what a struggle it must be to cycle it up, i can only imagine. dearie me ;)
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm not a fan of blue skies. Give me a bit of drama any day! It really did look like this the evening before I left the Lake District and I loved it.
This magnificent Highland bull was grazing in a field by The Struggle, between Ambleside and Kirkstone Pass.
Sunset in the Lake District on 20/09/26. This photo was taken looking south from the top of the Kirkstone Pass - right next to the Kirkstone Pass Inn. The Struggle, a road aptly named if you are trying to cycle up it, can be seen snaking off towards Ambleside.
Looking down towards Ambleside and lake Windermere. Kirkstone pass is a must if you visit the lakes, you could mistake yourself for being in the highlands Scotland at times. The road to the right is called the struggle, I think you can probably guess why.
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The Struggle, a narrow road which runs from Ambleside, beside Lake Windermere, to the top of the Kirkstone Pass, Lake District, Cumbria, Uk, Gb
All yolks aside.
Life is always a struggle some its more so than to others. But in the end we all get there!!!
20th March 2019
A lone sheep wanders past the solitary larch tree on "The Struggle", a steep Lakeland road that leads from Ambelside up to the Kirkstone Inn on a day characterised by the thick fog blanket which obscured everything.
I have to say, this one exemplifies how I feel at the moment, and where I feel I am... kind of lost and wandering around aimlessly in thick fog. I am just waiting for the fog to clear to see where I am and how to get somewhere I want to actually be!
Nikon D850, Nikkor 85mm f1.8, f=8, 1/160th second, ISO 64
4 shot panoramic stitched in Lightroom Classic CC, converted to mono using SilverFX Pro
This is the summit of 'The Struggle' at the Kirkstone Pass Inn in the Lake District. Now if you're a cyclist, this will be the end of the pain and with the 20% kick at the top, is the last thing you will want to see after just short of 3 miles of climbing from Ambleside. But having said that, I think one day I'll give it a bash :)
But the view from here is well worth the effort with Lake Windermere and the southern fells in the distance.
A light dusting of snow on The Struggle this morning, the brief pools of sunshine were lovely... but entirely misleading!