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Below is a record of my walks for this year with, where possible, photos and comments about each walk.
There are links to the individual summits from Wainwright's 214 fell tops, from his guide 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' and summits in other areas.
Click on the date to go to details about that walk and a selection of photographs.
Click on the Wainwright, Outlying Fell or summit to find details and previous walks that included that summit.
Statistics for the year's walks are at the bottom of the page
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DATE |
WALK |
DISTANCE |
ASCENT | TIME |
| Saturday, 26th December |
Slipper Lowe car park, Roddlesworth Reservoirs, Earnsdale Reservoir, Sunnyhurst Wood, Jubilee Tower, Darwen Moor |
8 mls | 1,500 ft | 4 hrs |
| Thursday, 25th December |
Rivington, Pigeon Tower, Rivington Pike, Pike Cottage, The Castle |
4.5 mls | 770 ft | 2.25 hrs |
| Sunday, 21st December |
Scout Scar, Brigsteer, Underbarrow, Bell Hill, Cunswick Scar |
10.4 mls | 2, 250 feet | 5.25 hrs |
| Wednesday, 17th December |
Scorton, Nicky Nook, Fell End Farm, Moor Farm, Burns Farm, Slean End |
7.7 mls | 1,500 ft | 4 hrs |
| Sunday, 14th December |
Rivington Great House Barn, Rivington Pike, Pike Cottage, Two Lads, Winter Hill, Noon Hill, Lower Hempshaw's, Lead Mines Clough, Yarrow Reservoir, Rivington |
10 mls | 1,300 ft | 4.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 7th December |
Great Langdale, Side Pike, Lingmoor Fell, Elterwater |
8.4 mls | 2,500 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 30th November |
Easedale Road, Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Codale Head, High Raise, Tarn Crag, Easedale Road |
10 mls | 3,200 ft | 7 hrs |
| Sunday, 23rd November |
Bowderdale, Cautley Spout, Cautley Crag, Calders, The Calf, Hazelgill Knott, West Fell |
12.8 mls | 3,100 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 16th November |
Horton Bridge, Brackenbottom, Pen-y-Ghent, Plover Hill, Foxup Moor, Hull Pot |
9.3 mls | 2,000 ft | 5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 12th November |
Clapham, Clapdale, Trow Gill, Gaping gill, Little Ingleborough, Ingleborough, Simon Fell Breast, Sulber Gate, Long Scar, Encombe Bridge |
12 mls | 2,200 ft | 6.75 hours |
| Sunday, 9th November |
A590, Town End, Yewbarrow, Witherslack Hall, Whitbarrow Scar, Lord's Seat (Whitbarrow), Horse Pasture Wood, Pether Pots, Rawsons, Beck Head |
10 mls | 2,100 ft | 5.25 hrs |
| Sunday, 2nd November |
Dockray, Gowbarrow Fell, Swinburn's Park, Little Mell Fell, Lowthwaite, Great Mell Fell, Matterdale End, Ulcat Row |
11.4 mls | 3,020 ft | 6.25 hrs |
| Tuesday, 28th October |
Kirkstone Pass, St Raven's Edge, Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, St Raven's Edge, Kirkstone Pass |
7 mls | 2,340 ft | 5 hrs |
| Sunday, 26th October |
Anglezarke car park, Lead Mines Clough, Higher Hempshaw's, Rivington Hall Barn, Great Barn, Yarrow Reservoir |
7 mls | 1,000 ft | 4.5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 22nd October |
Hartsop, Brock Crags, Satura Crag, Rest Dodd, Rampsgill Head, High Raise, Kidsty Pike, Rampsgill Head, The Knott, Hayeswater, Hayeswater Gill |
8 mls | 3,080 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 19th October |
Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, The Band, Bow Fell, Ore Gap, Angle Tarn, Rossett Pike, Mickleden |
9 mls | 3,000 ft | 5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 15th October |
Dockray, Gowbarrow Fell, Little Meldrum, The Hause, Little Mell Fell, Swinburn's Park, Gowbarrow Fell, Dockray |
9 mls | 2,600 ft | 5.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 12th October |
Patterdale, Arnison Crag, Trough Head, Birks, St Sunday Crag, Deepdale Hause, Grisedale Tarn, Grisedale Valley |
9.3 mls | 3,100 ft | 6 hrs |
| Thursday, 9th October |
White Coppice, Great Hill, Spitlers Edge, Higher Hempshaw's, Lead Mines Clough, Yarrow Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, Stronstrey Bank |
8.6 mls | 1,200 ft | 4.25 hrs |
| Wednesday, 8th October |
Warton, Warton Crag, Three Brothers, Leighton Hall, Leighton Moss, Red Bridge, Waterslack, Hawes Water, Yealand Storrs, Cringlebarrow Wood, Hyning Wood |
10 mls | 1,200 ft | 5.5 hrs |
| Monday, 6th October |
Whitewell and Browsholme (Walk 14 in Walks in the Forest of Bowland) |
7.5 mls | 900 ft | 4.7 hrs |
| Sunday, 5th October |
Mungrisdale, Bowscale Fell, Bannerdale Crags, Mungrisdale Common, Atkinson Pike, Blencathra, Scales Fell, Souther Fell |
11 mls | 3,330 ft | 6.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 28th September |
Grasmere (A591), Thorny How, Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Steel Fell |
8.4 mls | 2,400 ft | 7 hrs |
| Thursday, 25th September |
Rivington Great Barn, Terraced Gardens, Rivington Pike, Winter Hill , Belmont Road, Terraced Gardens |
6.5 mls | 1,000 ft | 3 hrs |
| Wednesday, 24th September |
Wrynose Pass, Cold Pike, Pike O'Blisco then Windermere to Orrest Head and return |
6 mls | 2,170 ft | 4.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 21st September |
Stanah, White Side, Raise, Stybarrow Dodd, Watson's Dodd, Great Dodd, Calfhow Pike, Clough Head, Old Coach Road, High Rigg shoulder |
14 mls | 4,000 ft | 7 hrs |
| Friday, 19th September |
Rivington Great Barn, Terraced Gardens, Rivington Pike, Noon Hill, Spitlers Edge, Great Hill, White Coppice, Anglezarke Reservoir, Rivington |
12 mls | 1,500 ft | 5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 17th September |
Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Ribble Way, Helwith Bridge, Pen-y-Ghent, Pennine Way, |
8.5 mls | 1,400 ft | 5 hrs |
| Sunday, 14th September |
Walna Scar Road, Low Water, Brim Fell, Grey Friar, Great Carrs, Swirl How, Wetherlam, Copper Mines Valley |
10.6 mls | 3,470 ft | 7 hrs |
| Sunday, 7th September |
Little Town, Hause Gate, Maiden Moor, High Spy, Dale Head Tarn, Dale Head, Robinson, High Snab Bank |
9.6 mls | 3,300 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 31st August |
Braithwaite, Barrow, Outerside, Sail, Crag Hill, Grasmoor, Hopegill Head, Grisedale Pike |
10.7 mls | 4,500 ft | 6.5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 27th August |
Grasmere (A591 lay-by), Mill Bridge, Tongue Gill, Brackenwife Knotts, Stone Arthur |
3.75 mls | 1,500 ft | 3.5 hrs |
| Friday, 22nd August |
Stockghyll Wood, Kirkstone Pass, Red Screes, Scandale Hause, Little Hart Crag, High Hartsop Dodd, Scandale Valley |
12 mls | 3,400 ft | 8 hrs |
| Wednesday, 20th August |
Glenridding, Howtown (via ferry), Hallin Fell, Sleet Fell, Place Fell, Patterdale |
8.6 mls | 2,700 ft | 7.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 17th August |
Kentmere, Hallow Bank Quarter, Nan Bield Pass, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Wray Crag, Rook Howe |
10 mls | 2,500 ft | 6.5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 13th August |
Whalley, Whalley Nab, Dean Clough Reservoir, Whalley viaduct |
6 mls | 750 ft | 3.5 hrs |
| Friday, 8th August |
Downham, Worsaw End, Scout Cairn, Pendle Summit, Downham Moor |
7 mls | 1,200 ft | 4.75 hrs |
| Tuesday, 5th August |
Hartsop, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street, The Knott, Hayeswater |
7.4 mls | 2, 200 ft | 6.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 3rd August |
Seathwaite, Bessy Boot, Tarn at Leaves, Rosthwaite Cam, Coombe Head, Glaramara, Allen Crags, Sprinkling Tarn, Styhead Tar, Stockley Bridge |
10.8 mls | 3,400 ft | 7 hrs |
| Sunday, 27th July |
Elterwater, Spedding Crag, Silver How, Blea Rigg, Pavey Ark, Thunacar Knott, Harrison Stickle, Pike O' Stickle, Loft Crag, Mark Gate, New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Chapel Stile, Elterwater |
12 mls | 3,377 ft | 8.5 hrs |
| Friday, 25th July |
Hurst Green, River Ribble, confluence of River Calder and River Hodder, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst College |
7.25 mls | 600 ft | 3.25 hrs |
| Tuesday, 22nd July |
Spring Wood, Read Hall, Simon's Cross, Hodgeon Stone Plantation, Golf Course |
6.5 mls | 1,200 ft | 4.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 20th July |
Great Whernside - Dowber Gill Beck, Providence Pot, Hag Dyke, Great Whernside, Hunters Sleets, Starbotton, returning to Kettlewell via Dales Way |
11.5 mls | 2,220 ft | 6.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 13th July | Fountain's Fell - Monk's Road, Malham Tarn, Pennine Way, Fountain's Fell, Darn Brook Fell, Littondale |
15 mls | 1,818 ft | 7.75 hrs |
| Sunday, 29th June | Armboth Fell, High Tove, High Seat, Bleaberry Fell, Walla Crag, Raven Crag |
12.1 mls | 3,054 ft | 7.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 22nd June |
Extreme weather conditions meant that the planned walk to Great Gable was abandoned and a low level walk completed instead |
6.6 mls | 900 ft | 3.5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 19th June |
River Nevis footbridge, Lochan Meall an t-Stuidhe, Ben Nevis, Lochan Meall an t-Stuidhe, Fort William |
11 mls | 5,000 ft | - |
| Tuesday, 17th June |
Kinlochleven, Nevis Forest, Fort William |
14.8 mls | 2,111 ft | 7 hrs |
| Monday 16th June |
Kingshouse Hotel, Devil's Staircase, Kinlochleven |
9 mls | 1,427 ft | 5 hrs |
| Sunday, 15th June |
Tyndrum, Bridge of Orchy, Inveroran, Rannoch Moor, Kingshouse Hotel |
19 mls | 1,665 ft | 8.5 hrs |
| Saturday, 14th June |
Inverarnan, Glen Falloch, Auchertyre, Tyndrum |
12.6 mls | 1,953 ft | 6 hrs |
| Friday, 13th June |
Rowardennan Hotel, banks of Loch Lomond, Beinglas, Inverarnan |
13 mls | 1,224 ft | 7 hrs |
| Thursday, 12th June |
Drymen, Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, Conic Hill, Balmaha, Rowardennan Hotel |
13.8 mls | 2,058 ft | 8.5 hrs |
| Wednesday 11th June |
Milngavie, Mugdock Park, Dumgoyne, Drymen |
12 mls | 740 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 1st June | Armboth, Armboth Fell, High Tove, High Seat, Bleaberry Fell, Walla Crag, Nest Brow, Dale Bottom, Thirlmere |
11.7 mls | 2,200 ft | 7.5 hrs |
| Friday, 30th May | Stybarrow Crag, Rake Cottages, Glenridding Dodd, Sheffield Pike, Nick Head, Hart Side, Nick Head, Glencoyne Valley, Seldom Seen |
7.5 mls | 2,625 ft | 6.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 25th May | Kentmere, Garburn Pass, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag, Mardale Ill Bell, Nan Bield Pass, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Green Quarter |
13.5 mls | 3,400 ft | 7 hrs |
| Sunday, 18th May | Hodge Close, Wetherlam Edge, Wetherlam, Swirl How, Great Carrs, Wet Side Edge, Little Langdale, Hodge Close |
10 mls | 3,400 ft | 6 hrs |
| Saturday, 17th May | Moor Howe, Dubbs Road, Sour Howes, Moor Head, Sallows, Kentmere Park, Mickle Moss, High Borrans, Moor Howe |
8 mls | 1,400 ft | 5 hrs |
| Sunday, 11th May | Kentmere, Garburn Pass, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag, Mardale Ill Bell, Nan Bield Pass, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Green Quarter |
13.5 mls | 3,450 ft | 9 hrs |
| Thursday, 6th May | Elterwater, Spedding Crag, Silver How, Little Castle How, Blea Rigg, Stickle Tarn, Pavey Ark, Thunacar Knott, Harrison Stickle, Loft Crag, Mark Gate, New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Chapel Stile, Elterwater |
12 mls | 3,800 ft | 7.5 hrs |
| Sunday, 27th April | Hartsop. Hayeswater Gill, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street, The Knott, Satura Crag, Angletarn, Angletarn Pikes, Boredale Hause, Hartsop |
10 mls | 3,200 ft | 7 hrs |
| Thursday, 24th April | Hartsop. Hayeswater Gill, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street, The Knott, Satura Crag, Angletarn, Angletarn Pikes, Boredale Hause, Hartsop |
10 mls | 3,200 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 20th April | Lonscale Fell, Jenkin Hill, Skiddaw Little Man, Skiddaw, Bakestall, Whitewater Dash, Great Calva, Skiddaw House, Glenderaterra Valley |
13 mls | 3,800 ft | 7.5 hrs |
| Wednesday, 16th April | Troutbeck Bridge, Robin Lane, Jenkin Crag, Ambleside, Stockghyll Force, Wansfell Pike, Wansfell, Nanny Lane, Troutbeck Bridge |
7.5 mls | 2,200 ft | |
| Friday, 11th April | Maggie's Bridge, Holme Wood, Burnbank Fell, Blake Fell, Gavel Fell, High Nook Farm, Maggie's Bridge |
7.5 mls | 1,720 ft | 5 hrs |
| Thursday, 10th April | Newlands Hause, Knott Rigg, Ard Crags and return |
3.6 mls | 1,400 ft | 2.4 hrs |
| Wednesday, 9th April | Cinderdale Bridge, Irton Fell, Whin Rigg, Illgill Head, Fence Wood & Wasdale Head |
8 mls | 2,200 ft | 5.75 hrs |
| Tuesday, 8th April | Scarth Gap, Haystacks, Innominate Tarn, Warnscale Bottom, Buttermere, Grassgarth Coppice, Rannerdale Knotts & return |
8.2 mls | 2,835 ft | 8 hrs |
| Monday, 7th April | Scaly Moss, Grike, Crag Fell, Whoap, Lank Rigg, River Calder |
8.6 mls | 2,225 ft | 6 hrs |
| Sunday, 6th April | Foulsyke, Low Fell, Fellbarrow, Loweswater |
6.5 mls | 1,600 ft | |
| Sunday, 30th March | Askham, Heughscar Hill, The Cockpit, Arthur's Pike, Bonscale Pike, Loadpot Hill, Roman Road (course of) |
12.5 mls | 2,400 ft | 6 hrs |
| Monday, 24th March | Scorton, Nicky Nook, Grizedale Bridge, Grizedale Lea Reservoir, Burns Farm, Slean End |
6.5 miles | 1,500 feet | 4.5 hours |
| Sunday, 23rd March | Leighton Moss, Yealand Storrs, Limestone Link, Fairy Steps, Arnside, Arnside Knott and Arnside Tower |
12.3 miles | 1,500 feet | 6 hours |
| Sunday, 10th February | Grasmere, Sour Milk Gill, Easedale Tarn, Codale Tarn, Tarn Crag, Stythwaite Steps, Far Easedale, Grasmere |
8 miles | 1,800 feet | 7 hours |
| Sunday, 3rd February | Staveley, Barley Bridge, Brunt Knott, Ulgraves, Gurnal Dubs, Potter Tarn, Staveley Park |
9 miles | 2,500 feet | 5 hours |
| Sunday, 20th January | Embsay, Eastby, Upper Barden Reservoir, Burnsall & Thorpe Fell, Cracoe Obelisk, Rylstone Cross, Embsay Moor Reservoir |
12 miles | 2,600 feet | 6.5 hours |
| Saturday, 19th January | Pelter bridge, Loughrigg Terrace, Loughrigg Fell, Fox Ghyll, Pelter Bridge |
5 miles | 1,120 feet | 4 hours |
| Wednesday, 16th January | Staveley, Barley Bridge, Brunt Knott, Ulgraves, Gurnal Dubs, Potter Tarn, Staveley Park, Staveley |
10 miles | 2,200 feet | 6 hours |
| Sunday, 13th January | Sabden, Deerstones, Spence Moor, Upper Ogden Reservoir, Ogden Clough, Big End, Pendle Hill, Scout Cairn, Sabden |
11.5 miles | 2,100 feet | 6 hours |
| Sunday, 6th January | Bampton, Drybarrows, Fordingdale Bottom, Burnbanks, Rosgill Moor, Rosgill, Bampton |
10 miles | 1,750 feet | 5.5 hours |
| Wednesday, 2nd January | White Moss car park, Loughrigg Fell, Loughrigg Tarn, Red Bank, weir, car park |
5 miles | 1,500 feet | 3.5 hours |
Statistics for this year (revised 27/12/08)
| Number of walks | 81 |
| Distance walked | 778.3 miles |
| Ascent climbed | 177,772 feet |
| Wainwrights | 159 |
| Outlying Fells | 7 |
Wainwrights and Outlying Fells are the total number completed this year