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Lakeland Fells Map
Buy Me: £3 This topology map of the Lake District fells came around after a chance conversation with my walking friend Matthew King. He was creating a bespoke map of the
23 November, 2014
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Slave to "The List"
Increasingly that’s how I’ve come to think of myself, a slave to the list. “The List” in question being the 214 Lakeland fells described and documented by Alfred Wainwright –
6 December, 2012
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High Hartsop Dodd
Route Description: Bridgend, Brothers Water, Hartsop Hall, High Hartsop Dodd, Little Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Hart Crag, Fairfield, Cofa Pike, Deepdale Hause, Deepdale, Bridgend. Notes: Beautiful day, only slightly spoiled by the
28 October, 2012
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Black Fell & Holme Fell
Two more Wainwrights have been dutifully ticked off this weekend. Two of the lower fells, as I didn’t think my legs or lungs were truly recovered from the Man Flu
21 October, 2012
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Armboth Fell & Man Flu
Route Description: Armboth, Thirlmere permissive path, Sippling Crag (The Benn), Castle Crag, Raven Crag, Forest track, Middlesteads Gill, Armboth Fell, Fisher Gill, Armboth There is a car park at Armboth
14 October, 2012
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Lord’s Seat & Whinlatter
Route Description: Scawgill Bridge, Spout Force, Darling How Plantation, Graystones, Kirk Fell, Widow Hause, Broom Fell, Lord’s Seat, Barf, Ullister Hill, Seat How, Tarbarrel Moss, Whinlatter Top, Whinlatter, Scawgill Bridge
30 September, 2012
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General
Lake District Fells Map
Buy Me: £3 Print-ready JPG file This topology map of the Lake District fells came around after a chance conversation with my walking friend Matthew King. He was creating a
4 August, 2012
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General
Project Wainwright 2007 – Update
Early last year I began ‘Project Wainwright’, which was my way of officially beginning the collection of all 214 Lakeland fells classified by Alfred Wainwright. This is a bagging list
26 November, 2008
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Staggering up Scafell Pike
Probably the toughest walk of the year for me yesterday (Sunday), what with the heat and the choice of route. I’d elected to walk-in through Eskdale and then ascend via
28 July, 2008
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Burnt on Great Gable
The hottest day of the year so far saw Tex, his friend Mark and I on Great Gable today. We walked up from the Slate Mine at Honister, over the little visited
26 July, 2008
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Death on Jack’s Rake
I noticed the BBC announced the death of a walker on Jack’s Rake last week. Having done the scramble only recently it makes me wonder just what he was doing
22 July, 2008
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Project Wainwright 2007
Well what a marvellous week of weather we’ve had up here in Cheshire, its been sunny all week, with no rain and very little wind to speak of. I was
15 April, 2007
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