Our headlamps played tricks with colour, turning new spruce tips silver and making a lichen-shagged tree sparkle.

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Ladders of sunlight pour down onto the patchwork fields and Wasdale suddenly takes on a gentler aspect: the wet fellsides sparkle in the sharp light and Wastwater turns into a smooth sheet of silver, reflecting the surrounding hills.

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