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The broad path from Coledale Hause down into the valley is well constructed and not too steep, arriving at Coledale Beck just at the point where a gauging weir has been built below the old Force Crag mine workings. With all this expense, and the gauge obviously showing how often the waters are high, one would have thought that those now responsible for the gauge and the mine buildings might have spent that tiny bit extra to include a footbridge here, given how much is not being spent removing the ugly rusting hulks just upstream. The stepping stones are just sufficient in this weather, but the more northerly stones are wobbly and just going underwater despite the weather not being especially wet. The small tributary entering here, river right, is Birkthwaite Beck.