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Search - Lake District: North and West Lakeland: Walks (Pathfinder)

Lake District North and West Lakeland Walks - Pathfinder
Author: Terry Marsh

No grouping of fells can ever be entirely satisfactory, but in this arrangement of walks, the reader is invited to explore a part of the Lake District that is for the most part comparatively little known, certainly compared with the honeypots that flank the central thrust from Windermere northwards to Keswick. The northern fells comprise two pri... more »ncipal mountains, Skiddaw and Blencathra, that conceal a rash of lesser summits behind them, in the silent area known as Back o' Skidda'. And it is easy to see how appropriate was Southey's reference to 'My neighbour Skiddaw', for nowhere in Britain does a mountain so dominate a town as Skiddaw does Keswick, looming above the town like a benevolent old giant. And 'old' is especially apposite, for the rocks of Skiddaw are by far the most ancient in the Lake District. On a good day, in spite of evident and significant ascent, the walk up Skiddaw is something that can be appreciated by everyone, and will reward everyone with a keen sense of achievement. Blencathra by contrast is a summit on which you could roam for a week, ascending each day by a different route to its summit. Together Skiddaw and Blencathra rest like huge sleeping policemen to what lies beyond. Here there is the vast wilderness of Skiddaw Forest and the Uldale and Caldbeck Fells, a wild, intriguing place, unique in Lakeland, a place of wide, smooth-sided valleys, broad grass and heather uplands, and boggy flats more akin to the Pennines than Lakeland. This is a true forest of olden times, but more latterly a forest in the sense of a sporting reserve for nobility and kings. It is now a virtually treeless landscape, completely uncultivated and often demanding excellent navigational technique. These northern fells were the hunting territory of John Pell, born in Caldbeck in 1776 and celebrated in song in his own lifetime, and they are one of the few places in Lakeland where solitude can be enjoyed in abundance. The area vaguely called the north-western fells reaches westwards from Bassenthwaite lake and Derwent Water to embrace to lonely summits of Whinlatter and the lakes of Buttermere and the Vale of Lorton. Whinlatter in particular has seen extensive development of its great forest for recreational use, yet there remains just beyond its boundaries an area of soft, moulded fells that slip quietly down to the sea. Great fells there are, too, and the walks in this book visit as many as space reasonably allows, consistent with a desire to encourage walkers to explore less popular highways and byways. Nowhere is more intimate and appealing that the lower Newlands valley, nor anywhere more magnificent for the walker than the fells than surround it. A visit to Loweswater takes walkers in a clockwise direction for no reason other than the fact that to walk anti-clockwise leads first to the shores of Loweswater's lake, with a very real degree of probability that you would go no further, so enchanting is the lake and the woodlands of Holme Wood beside it. The same will be said of the other regions visited in this series of books, but among the north-western fells there is a relaxing sense of ease and contentment that is almost tangible.

ISBN-13: 9781854584960
ISBN-10: 1854584960
Publication Date: 10/31/2009
Pages: 96
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Publisher: Crimson Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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