Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46009 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent guide for all
To give you a bit of background, my husband and I visited the Lakes in early March. We managed four of these walks in our week there, even with him going through chemotherapy and me being spectacularly unfit! We liked the Lakes and the walks so much we're planning another trip in September and we'll definitely be taking this guide with us.

The walks are divided into three levels of difficulty; we only tried the easiest and the medium level walks. The easiest level walks should be manageable for practically anyone (bearing in mind that I'm not joking about being unfit!). These trails are easy to follow and easy on the feet and knees, but still give amazing views and lovely fresh air.

We did two of the medium-level walks and didn't have a problem with them either. However, I would suggest looking at other guides alongside this one for some of the longer walks. We took the Rydal water walk (really beautiful), which for the most part was pretty easy. However, the last stretch of the path set out in this guide was steeply downhill - chosen by the author to take in a very pretty waterfall. The route was rocky and just beside a stream which had overrun its banks, so it was also wet and slippery. Having another guide in addition to this one would have given us enough confidence to take a longer, but smoother, path.

Having said that, I would very much recommend buying this book before you go. While you're in the Lakes, you can pick up individual A5 guides to most of these walks from any tourist information centre (they'll cost between £1.50 and £2). I would also suggest the LapMap (about £1.50), which covers some of the same walks but with slightly different routes. That way, if you're completely new to walking (like we were), you'll have different perspectives and plenty of descriptions to give you the most options and prevent the tiniest chances of getting lost!

Handy Little Book
Have just come back from the Lake District having done a couple of walks using this book. Very useful. I know you can read an OS map to find public footpaths but this is pretty good as it gives you an indication of those worth doing and good starting points. The pictures in it helps you pick what you fancy the most as well. Very compact for walking with too.

The instructions are very clear (for the most part - odd hiccup - but that might have been our fault!) and the grading of the walks was very useful. (Not normally much of a walker but this sort of publication would make me do it more often.)

Glad I bought it. Now just looking for one for Lincolnshire!

Excellent little book, amazing walks.
Not really a fan of mapping, walking and navigating around places I'm not familiar with I bought this book, thinking I'd be alright with such a small book, and I may find one or two good walks.

I bought the book overpriced at the local co-op (langdale) whilst I was in the lake district, and even for the price I paid I was extremley pleased with the book.

The detail in some of the guides is immense, it's almost impossible to get lost! And from my experience with this book, the walks I did included breath-taking views, vast, open tarns and many more unique and amazing sights of the true lake district.

I particulary reccomend doing a walk that includes a "tarn", which is a completley natural lake that has developed with no help of human hand (more detail in the book) as you'll simply be amazed. They also provide amazing 'picnic' areas, as not many people are attracted to the less popular ones, you won't be distrubed at all.

At one point, me and my father (who was walking with me at the time) stopped beside a particulary beautiful lake, and listened as we heard nothing. Pure silence.

Another amazing sight that me and my father witnessed was at the top of a mountain, where a jet swooped below us and followed the course of a nearby lake. It was actually below us, flying so low and us climbing so high, you can imagine the impact it had on our walk and the view before us.

If you are expecting a journey to the lake district in the near future this book is definetly something that should be packed, and for less than a fiver (belive me, you'll pay alot more if you purchase it after arriving) it's well worth buying.