Three Peaks, Ten Tors (eBook)
256 Seiten
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-84965-147-9 (ISBN)
A guidebook to 15 of the best challenge walking routes in the UK - with both serious and humorous approaches, There are routes throughout the country, including the National Three Peaks Challenge, the Yorkshire and the Lancashire Three Peaks, the Dartmoor Ten Tors, the Lyke Wake Walk, the Derwent Watershed, Across Wales Walk, the Lairig Ghru, the Exmoor Hundred, the Welsh 3000s, Lakes 3000s and Old County Tops, the Cairngorm 4000s, the Mourne Seven Sevens, and Tranter''s Walk. This book looks at what it takes to do a long-distance or challenge walk - the mental toughness, experience, the slight madness - plus notes on planning, schedules and the challenges of undertaking these routes. The author intersperses sound advice with wry recollections of his experience of the National Three Peaks Challenge and many other challenges he has experienced throughout the British Isles. Suitable for aspiring or novice long-distance walkers, the guide provides tips on how to minimise the suffering, stay safe, raise money for charity and find a surprising amount of enjoyment along the way. Old hands will enjoy comparing their experiences with the author''s reminiscences of the highs and lows of long-distance routes. The book also includes suggestions for new ''three peaks'' and other long-distance routes.
Ronald Turnbull lives close to the Carsphairn and Lowther Hills. He was one of the first people to walk the Southern Upland Way. He is a runner as well as a walker, and in 1986 was awarded the Long Distance Trophy of the Fell Running Association for a non stop journey over the 148 hills of Southern Scotland. Outside the Southern Uplands he walks, climbs and runs in the Highlands and sometimes in England.
Key to Route Maps
Map: Location of the Walks
Introduction
PART I: THE NATIONAL THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE
1 Introducing the Three Big Hills
Ben Nevis
Scafell Pike
Snowdon
2 The National Three Peaks Challenge:
Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon within 24 hours
Planning
The route: Ben Nevis
The route: Scafell Pike
The route: Snowdon
Variants
3 The National Three Peaks Challenge by Public Transport
The good, the bad, and the mystery socks
Challenges and the imagination
The Three Peaks by bus
PART II: THREE PEAKS RATHER CLOSER TOGETHER
4 The Yorkshire Three Peaks: Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough
Route and schedule
Adventures of the invisible worm - a winter's night on the Yorkshire Three Peaks
Up Ingleborough underground
5 The Lancashire Three Peaks: Longridge Fell, Easington Fell, Pendle
Pen-y-ghent - or Pendle?
Route and schedule
6 Everywhere has Three Peaks in it
Peaks in threes
The Three Peaks of Somerset: Dunkery Beacon, Periton Hill, Selworthy Beacon
The Marilyns: 1554 hills you probably haven't heard of
PART III: MORE AND MOOR
7 A Weakness for Bleakness
8 The Dartmoor Ten Tors: 50 Miles of Moorland over Two Days
History and geography
Ten Tors for grown-ups
9 Mastery of Misery: The Lyke Wake Walk
The easiest walk in England?
Route and schedule
10 The Derwent Watershed: 39 Miles in the Dark Peak
For Peat's sake
Route and schedule
11 The Across Wales Walk: From the English Border to the Sea over Plynlimon
Walking across Wales
Brief route and schedule
12 The Lairig Ghru: The Great Through-route of the Cairngorms
Through the Ghru
Route and schedule
PART IV: SURVIVAL
13 Time and Space: The Fundamentals
14 Fifty from your Front Door: A Southern Upland Story
15 A Hundred Miles at Once: Two Days and Nights over Exmoor
The Exmoor Hundred
Survival skills: Sore legs and feeling sick
PART V: RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH
16 The Welsh 3000s: 15 Peaks in One Day
Brief route and schedule
Foel-fras to Snowdon with extra fun
17 The Lakes at Length: Lakes 3000s and Old County Tops
Stuffing the daffodils
Lakes 3000s brief route and schedule
Old County Tops brief route and schedule
18 The Cairngorm 4000s: Five Granite Giants in a Day
Brief route and schedule
Getting the wind up
19 The Mourne Seven Sevens: All Northern Ireland's 700m Peaks
Brief route and schedule
Mourne is never less
20 Tranter's Walk: 18 Munros around Glen Nevis
The freedom to fall
Brief route and schedule
21 Start/Finish
Appendix 1 Information and Internet
Appendix 2 Walks Summary
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.9.2010 |
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Zusatzinfo | Over 100 colours photos and over 20 maps |
Verlagsort | Milnthorpe |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
Reisen ► Reiseführer | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84965-147-7 / 1849651477 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84965-147-9 / 9781849651479 |
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