Winter Walks in the Lake District is a guide to a collection of enjoyable walks and easy winter climbs designed to make the most of the winter conditions that regularly descend on the Lake District.
Local author Stephen Goodwin has selected his favourite cold-weather outings, which all share the magic and exhilaration that snow or even a hoar frost brings to the Lakeland fells.
The routes include accessible jaunts up Gowbarrow, High Rigg and Latrigg, Keswick’s ‘house mountain’ – an ideal spot to survey the snow cover on the bigger tops to the south; ascents of Helvellyn from the east and west, via classic and lesser-known ridgelines, or graded climbs on Browncove Crags and Nethermost Pike; high-level horseshoes above Haweswater and Langdale; and, of course, ascents of the classics – Scafell Pike, Blencathra, Great End – although not necessarily by the most travelled routes.
Alongside advice on winter conditions and kit, each of the routes in this book features detailed introductions and directions, Ordnance Survey 1:25,000-scale maps, photo topos for the graded winter climbs where appropriate, and local information such as the best pubs and cafes.
Contents: 1 Grisedale Pike & Coledale, (1a Grisedale Pike, 1b Coledale Horseshoe, 1c A Coledale Shortie), 2 Latrigg, 3 Blencathra (3a Hall’s Fell Ridge (grade I), 3b Sharp Edge (grade II)), 4 High Rigg & St John’s in the Vale (4a East Route, 4b West Route), 5 Browncove Crags & Helvellyn (grades I–II), 6 Gowbarrow, 7 Catstye Cam, Helvellyn & Striding Edge, 8 Grisedale Trilogy (8a Nethermost Gully (grade II), 8b Nethermost Pike via East Ridge, 8c Dollywaggon Pike via The Tongue), 9 Dove Crag & Little Hart Crag, 10 Riggindale & High Street , 11 Bow Fell & Crinkle Crags (grade I/II option), 12 Scafell Pike via Piers Gill Path, 13 Great End (grade I/II option).
All illustrated with lots of colour.
By Stephen Goodwin.
Card cover, 17.5cm x 12cm, 160 pages.
Published 2018.