Product Description

This is an inspirational and detailed guide to fifty memorable expeditions on the high fells of Lakeland. These circular routes have been chosen to provide the moderately adventurous walker with a range of essential walks for exploring the region. The walks are all graded, making the guide equally suitable for less experienced walkers looking for new summits and undiscovered areas. Only the mildest of scrambling will be encountered as these are four-season walks. The next stage in your discovery trail will be the fell-by-fell route planning detail of Lakeland Fellranger, the contemporary master guide. This guide features: 50 graded walks throughout Lakeland; and, routes illustrated with Harvey maps and the author's pictorial route diagrams.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35534 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 287 pages

About the Author
Mark Richards' transition from full-time farmer to full-time outdoor writer has been a gradual one. In 1973, with the direct encouragement of Alfred Wainwright, he wrote his first walking guide to the Cotswold Way. Since then he has indulged his pleasure in exploring rural Britain by creating a range of walking guides.In 1980 he began his three-part guide to the Peak District for Cicerone Press, and in 1987, with Chris Wright, wrote a guide to walking around the former county of Westmorland. This book sowed the seeds of a dream, to be fulfilled some 14 years later, when he and his wife moved to Cumbria. Here he developed a passion for the finest of all walking landscapes, held within and around this marvellous county.Now, living in what was once the Barony of Gilsland,Mark is close to Hadrian's Wall, enabling him to renew afascination first kindled when he prepared a guide towalking the Wall in 1993.

Customer Reviews

Excellent new Lake District guide
This is a well written and illustrated selective guide to walking in the English Lake District. It is well produced, with good quality of photographs and printing. The accurate maps from Harvey's are a significant strength-it's good to get the route description and the detailed map side by side. The route profiles are also helpful. The guide is a modern one taking advantage of the potential from modern digital maps.

I have been walking the fells for about the last thirty years. I have enjoyed using earlier guide books such as Poucher, Wainwright and Bob Allen. Also the FRCC's guide.

It's great to be able to welcome a new guide, that is well written, with a sensible selection of walks, and which adds to what has gone before by taking full advantage of modern production methods.

The Fells remain...and this book will get you wanting to get out amongst them.

I would recommend it as a good introduction for newcomers to Lakeland walking, and as a worthwhile addition to the library of experienced walkers.

Worth adding to your bookshelf
Not a book to take on the fells, as its quite large (and frankly too good to risk getting damaged) but very useful for planning a serious days walking in the Lakes from the comfort of your armchair. Whilst most of the walks and all of the fells are obviously covered in other books, clear instructions, good maps and excellent photographs still makes this worth buying as it is a very pleasant (and addictive) read.

Impressive content and excellent illustrations
I recently bought this book in preparation for a summer of trips to the Lake District for walking. The content LOOKS great and should provide an excellent basis for walks. I look forward to trying it in anger. Be aware that these walks are challenging and are graded "energetic", "strenuous" and "arduous"! If you are up for it then I would say buy the book. I'm off to try Sike Pike next weekend.

I always find that Cicerone books are excellent. They are very readable in addition to their practicality.