This classic guide to both walks and scrambles on the Lakeland peaks, is now fully revised, with new maps and illustrations. Incorporating 84 walks, of which 73 are rounds with the great convienence of returning to your starting place, and including 40 of the best scrambles, alternativ e, more adventurous and, to many people, more
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Bob Allen is the author of many walking guides to the mountains. He is a member of numerous climbing clubs and has significant international walking and climbing experience. He has known the Lake District all his life and now lives in Grasmere, where he still keeps active, takes photographs and paints watercolours of mountains.
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When William Wordsworth proposed that his reader place himself in imagination on a cloud midway between Great Gable and Scafell in order to see the valleys radiating like the spokes of a wheel from that vantage, he could equally have chosen Esk Hause, or possibly Bowfell, as the hub. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
optional scramble, alternative scramble, grassy spur, intake wall, main footpath, little summit, summit cairn, main ridge, short descent, descent route, many walkers, summit plateau, little col, broad ridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Gable, High Street, Dungeon Ghyll, Harrison Stickle, Lake District, Coniston Old Man, High Stile, Upper Eskdale, Esk Hause, Grisedale Tarn, Striding Edge, Allen Crags, Crag Hill, Angle Tarn, Harter Fell, Jack's Rake, Kirk Fell, Raven Crag, Rossett Gill, Sourmilk Gill, Dove Crag, Great End, Green Gable, High Crag, The Band New!
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When William Wordsworth proposed that his reader place himself in imagination on a cloud midway between Great Gable and Scafell in order to see the valleys radiating like the spokes of a wheel from that vantage, he could equally have chosen Esk Hause, or possibly Bowfell, as the hub. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
optional scramble, alternative scramble, grassy spur, intake wall, main footpath, little summit, summit cairn, main ridge, short descent, descent route, many walkers, summit plateau, little col, broad ridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Gable, High Street, Dungeon Ghyll, Harrison Stickle, Lake District, Coniston Old Man, High Stile, Upper Eskdale, Esk Hause, Grisedale Tarn, Striding Edge, Allen Crags, Crag Hill, Angle Tarn, Harter Fell, Jack's Rake, Kirk Fell, Raven Crag, Rossett Gill, Sourmilk Gill, Dove Crag, Great End, Green Gable, High Crag, The Band New!
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- An Old Man by Eric M. Black on page 179, and page 182
- William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill on page 13
- On High Lakeland Fells Hb by Bob Allen in Front Matter
- Rock Climbing by Libby Peter in Front Matter
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