Three Peaks, Ten Tors (eBook)

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