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Fell walking

We have spent most of our holidays walking in the hills, mainly in Britain, but also in other countries. There is nothing quite like it.

You can skip to the pictures  if you prefer.)

Often we just make circular walks each day, but on many holidays we have walked an end to end route taking many days. These include inn to inn holidays in France, Catalonia and Switzerland , and several of the longer long distance paths in the British Isles

For more information about long distance footpaths, see the Long Distance Walkers Association or National Trails in England & Wales. or Scotland's Great Trails.. John Butler 's End to End Walk incorporates several other long distance paths.

There is a tiny selection of the pictures , from these and other holidays, to give you a feel for the magic of hill walking.

We have also done many inn to inn walks in Europe 

There are several websites with pictures of fell walking, including Lakeland sites like Sean McMahon's Striding Edge , Andrew Leaney's Lakeland Fells. and John Butler's Lake District , and Scottish Highlands. My favourite was Ann Bowker's site Mad About Mountains, which had superb collections of pictures, continually being updated with her recent walks. She was a remarkable woman, awarded the MBE in 2003 for services to tourism. Living far from the Lakes, as I do, I was envious of her having the fells on her doorstep. But after she died in 2016 her site vanished from the web. 

I give a talk on fell walking. 


Pictures

Here is a tiny selection of pictures to give a flavour of fell walking. Click on each to enlarge and use arrows to move between them.

21HarrisonStickle.JPG
Harrison Stickle
l36BowFell.JPG
Bowfell from Pike O' Stickle
22StakePass.JPG
Stake Pass
23LeversWater.JPG
Levers Water
24CarrockFellAPath.jpg
Path on Carrock Fell
25GablefmGlaramara+A.jpg
Great Gable from Glaramara
26HighHouseTarnPikes.jpg
Langdale Pikes from High House Tarn
27WarnscalePath.jpg
Path above Warnscale Bottom
31OnCatbells.jpg
On Catbells
32OnHighSpy.jpg
On High Spy
33HighSpyRavine.jpg
High Spy Ravine
34DaleHeadCorrie.jpg
Dale Head Corrie
35DerwentwaterFromBarf.jpg
Derwentwater From Barf 
36TheBell.jpg
The Bell 
37MinersTrack.jpg
Miners' Track 
GreensidePathWalkers.jpg
Mine track in Greenside Valley
RoughtonGillA.jpg
Roughton Gill
GlendaraterraPathSlope.jpg
Path high on the side of Glenderaterra Valley
GlenderaterraPathA.jpg
Close up of the path along Glenderaterra Valley
61YewdaleFell.jpg
Walking on Yewdale Fell
CatbellsCloud.jpg
Evening view towards Catbells
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Glen Nevis
l541AlltDhaim.jpg
Allt Dhaim - north of Ben Nevis
43DunNaCuaiche.jpg
Watch tower overlooking Inveraray 
44Inveraray.jpg
View of Inveraray  
41FlowersRock.jpg
Flowers in stony ground
11UpperRundale.jpg
Upper Rundale
12LimestonePavement.jpg
Limestone Pavement
l009IngleboroughWalkers.jpg
Walking towards Ingleborough
l844SheepStMenIngleborough.jpg
Ingleborough from the top of Great Knoutberry Hill
l823GreatScarA.jpg
Ascending Great Scar between Settle & Malham
51WhernsidePath.jpg
Path up Whernside 
52WhernsideSummit.jpg
Whernside summit
l853BleaMoorTrackA.jpg
The track over Blea Moor
l065BleaMoorTramway.jpg
Blea Moor
62AdalvikA.jpg
Overlooking the Arctic Ocean
63Wading.jpg
Wading a small river in Iceland
l099TatrasPathA.jpg
In the Tatras Mountains
l447LaxeyValley.jpg
Laxey Valley - Isle of Man
71ToHayBluff.jpg
The Hatterall Ridge - towards Hay Bluff
53HardGangBeck.jpg
Disused lead mine – Hard Gang Beck in the rain 
KinderPathCairnA.jpg
Passing an over sized cairn on Kinder Scout
KinderDownfallSprayA.jpg
Spray from Kinder Downfall whipped up by the wind

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