Ready for adventure in the Lake District Fells? Cicerone’s Walking the Lake District Fells guides are your ultimate fell-by-fell companions. A series of eight guidebooks, one for each of the main valley bases, cover ALL the routes up ALL the fells in each area – that’s 230 fells in total.
This guidebook covers 35 Lakeland summits that can be climbed from Patterdale, Ambleside and the Grasmere, Thirlmere and Ullswater valleys. The area is characterised by lofty ridges, with highlights including Helvellyn, Fairfield, St Sunday Crag and Red Screes, plus a handful of classic ridge routes for longer fell days.
Those with some previous hiking experience will find all the info needed to climb the fells with confidence, plus a fresh perspective on both classic and lesser-known fells. Keen summit-baggers can use our tick lists to tick off the fells as they go.
What sets these guidebooks apart from the rest?
- Complete coverage – every route covered, not just the main one.
- Devise your own routes – a variety of ascents, descents, and ridge routes, so you can choose to climb one fell or combine routes to craft your own adventure.
- Up-to-date route information – complete route description and HARVEY mapping for each fell.
- Hand-drawn toposand panoramas – easily see the routes up each fell and views from the top.
- Fell-friendly routes – designed to minimise environmental impact.
Table of Content
Map keys
Area covered by this guide
Author preface
Starting points
Introduction
Valley bases
Fix the Fells
Using this guide
Safety and access
Additional online resources
Fells
1 Arnison Crag
2 Birkhouse Moor
3 Birks
4 Catstycam
5 Clough Head
6 Dollywaggon Pike
7 Dove Crag
8 Fairfield
9 Glenridding Dodd
10 Gowbarrow Fell
11 Great Dodd
12 Great Mell Fell
13 Great Rigg
14 Hart Crag
15 Hart Side
16 Hartsop above How
17 Helvellyn
18 Heron Pike
19 High Hartsop Dodd
20 High Pike
21 Little Hart Crag
22 Little Mell Fell
23 Low Pike
24 Middle Dodd
25 Nab Scar
26 Nethermost Pike
27 Raise
28 Red Screes
29 Seat Sandal
30 Sheffield Pike
31 St Sunday Crag
32 Stone Arthur
33 Stybarrow Dodd
34 Watson's Dodd
35 White Side
Ridge routes
1 The Fairfield Horseshoe
2 The Helvellyn Ridge
3 The Dodds (through-route)
4 The Deepdale Round
More to explore
Useful contacts
A fellranger's glossary
The Lake District fells
About the author
Mark Richards’ transition from full-time farmer to full-time outdoor writer has been a gradual one. In 1973, with the direct encouragement of Alfred Wainwright, he wrote his first walking guide to the Cotswold Way. Since then he has indulged his pleasure in exploring rural Britain by creating a range of walking guides. In 1980 he began his three-part guide to the Peak District for Cicerone Press, and in 1987, with Chris Wright, wrote a guide to walking around the former county of Westmorland. This book sowed the seeds of a dream, to be fulfilled some 14 years later, when he and his wife moved to Cumbria. Here he developed a passion for the finest of all walking landscapes, held within and around this marvellous county. Mark has written a Cicerone guide to Great Mountain Days in the Lake District and, after many years of dedicated research, completed his Lakeland Fellranger series of eight guides covering the entire region in 2013. Now living in what was once the Barony of Gilsland, Mark is also close to Hadrian’s Wall, enabling him to renew a fascination first kindled when he prepared a guide to walking the Wall in 1993. He has also published a guide to the Wall for Cicerone.
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