2008 Diary
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 |