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Wansfell Pike avoiding the tourist route

By Hugh Stewart April 28, 2022 Leave a Comment

This five and a half mile walk avoids the direct ascent from the Stock Ghyll valley, which has become very popular recently. It must be in a well read book of walks. This walk is both less steep and pleasanter, passing throught Skelghyll Wood twice. It is described from the Low Fold car park just

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Blease Fell and Hare Shaw, Howgills

By Hugh Stewart April 24, 2022 Leave a Comment

Sorry for the absence of a few months, due to the bad knees and a long recovery from a Knee Replacement. This is an exceptionally quiet walk, suitable for a bank holiday: I saw no-one, not even on the road on an Easter weekend, on the shorter of the two walks. They involve a slightly naughty

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Conistone/Grassington circular

By Hugh Stewart December 6, 2021 Leave a Comment

This pleasant circuit of just short of seven miles was shown to us by Tim and Christine Shaw, and would be as good in a northerly winter gale as the summer. From Conistone head east up the track from the Maypole on the green, and keep going up the defile, the Dib, which is similar to many in

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Gauber Quarry addendum and correction

By Hugh Stewart September 28, 2021 Leave a Comment

Strange to have taken so long after the 2014 reprint, you may think, to correct an error, and a further change to the route should help. So, walk 11 in the Hillwalks from the Settle to Carlisle railway stations, page 102,second para, it should read ".... a further 250 yards watch for an oblique

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Walla Crag Gully

By Hugh Stewart August 22, 2021 Leave a Comment

"....which has the merit of being the first recorded route in the valley (Borrowdale). A once very popular route, it is rarely ascended now......a classic of its time" Despite the above, from the F&RCC guide book of the Millenium, and what the first ascenscionist may have written, having

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Aysgarth, with Ballowfield and Seata Quarry nature reserves

By Hugh Stewart August 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

An easy late summer flower walk of 6.5 miles. You could park at the large and busy car park above the falls at Aysgarth, or at Thoralby, or best of all in the pull off by the footbridge a km west of Aysgarth. Cross the bridge and continue to the B road. turn left on it for a km till the

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Hillwalks from the Settle to Carlisle Railway Stations

24 walks into the hills surrounding the historic and iconic Settle to Carlisle railway, based on the stations between Settle and Appleby. The area has some of the finest walking of the north Pennines: the Craven district around Settle; the Three Peaks area; Dentdale, and Mallerstang and the upper Eden valley.

£12.95 (P&P may apply)

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Mountain Biking Adventures: Multi-day Routes in Northern Britain

Over the last two decades, mountain biking has developed enormously as a “sport”. We greatly admire the technical and athletic capabilities of modern day mountain bikers and recognise that many excellent guides have been written and custom-built trails set up. In this guide we try to reopen a sense of adventure and wilderness to mountain biking, providing multi-day routes with a remoteness, continuity and “arc” missing from many modern guides with their focus on day and half day outings.

UK £13.95 ( inc. P&P)

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Settle to Carlisle – Hill Walk with Return by Classic Train Route

With over 22,000 ft of ascent in 105 miles set out over 8 days, this walk sets out from Settle, taking in the classic summits of the North Yorkshire Dales, Howgills, Eastern and Northern Lakeland Fells, to arrive at Carlisle. The return journey to Settle by one of the classic train journeys. Illustrated with photographs and route maps.

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Cold Fell and Bee-eaters, grand day out.

If there exists a reader of these blogs apart from the two I know, I would like to apologise for the absence of a decent walk since May (2015), as the Pennine Way crippled my knee and I am limited to short hobbles. Hearing about the exotic bee-eater birds at Gelt Sand Quarry near Brampton, Cumbria,

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Torver circular

A six and a bit mile walk for a day too windy for the summits, or, in my case, a bad knee. It combines a pleasant ascent through pastures, quarries and moor, with the Old Man and Dow Crag ahead, with a return along the easy Coniston Water lakeside path. A car park just north of the church, with

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The Highfields walk, Halton with Aughton.

Another plague walk which we could do from home, and although this seems to be a popular walk for locals, we had never done it, and decided to do it both because of that and as we thought it would be less popular and hence less boot-churned muddy than others round Caton and the Bowland Fells. The

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