'Have you ever skinnydipped in an ice-cold mountain tarn while there's a full moon in the sky?'

The North Western Fells are characterised by soaring east-west ridges and an absence of mountain tarns.

Twilight calm dropping down from the sun sleep to still the restless mountain tarn.

Mt Sebastopol and the mountain tarns are a favourite as is the Hooker Valley with its profuse vegetation.

They had been fishing in a mountain tarn when it started to snow.

Bodom's favored subjects were gloomy landscapes, lonely forest areas and mountain tarns.

We camped that night on the pebble shores of a lake no bigger than a mountain tarn.

This is one of the most difficult mountain tarns to locate, and its black algal bed and clear water combine to give the false impression of great depth.

It is found on the stony or sandy bottoms of clear, usually slightly acidic ponds, typically in mountain tarns, growing at 5-460 cm depth of water.

Below these is the beautiful mountain tarn of Small Water.