Category: Classic Walks
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Classic Walk: Coniston and Wetherlam via the Walna Scar Road 17km
It’s been 15 years since I last visited Coniston. It’s a place where I began most of my early Lake District adventures, and the place where my single biggest outdoor camping fail took place in one particularly disastrous trip when I was 16. Back then, my good friend Chris (check out ”33 Miles of Juggling”…
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Classic Walk: The Crowden Horseshoe, Peak District (16km – 5hrs)
This weekend just gone, I completed a classic walk called the Crowden Horseshoe. It is a 16km circuit taking in the summit of Black Hill (582m), and is a northern Dark Peak walk, only just within the boundary of the National Park. It is very much a walk of two halves. The first uses the…
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Greatest Walks in Britain #3: A Round of Kinder Scout Part 1
This is probably the most classic walk in the Peak District – a full ’round’ or circumnavigation of the entire Kinder Scout plateau. Our route starts either from Edale, or from the Snake Pass, and uses the Pennine Way to access the 630 metre high mountain.
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The Yorkshire Three Peaks
I completed this classic challenge walk in the Yorkshire Dales again last weekend (video to come very shortly). It takes in the summits of Pen y Ghent, Whernside, and Ingleborough, the last of which you can just see peeking through the viaduct archways on the right.
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