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We have known Graham Uney for a long time as he was the Fell Top Assessor on Helvellyn for many years & we have been on his winter skills courses which are well worth doing. He is a very capable mountaineer, a great mountain guide who is a pleasure to spend time with, and it turns out a very good author too.
This is a great book for Wainwright Baggers but also for anyone who wants to get up a few summits on the same walk to make the most of your day in the hills. It is split into the 7 areas covered by Wainwrights Pictorial Guides so where ever you are in the Lakes you can use this book to have a great day out and get on top of a few hills.
In this book you'll find 64 routes that, if you complete them all, by default you will also have completed the Wainwrights. A few of the summits are featured in more than one walk. That's ok. You can do them more than once!
Why do we need a guide book on the fells of the Lake District if Wainwright wrote seven of them? Well, I should say right here that this book is not intended to replace Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. They are superb books. But, they were written in the 1950s and 60s, and yes, some things in the hills have changed in the intervening years. Another reason is that many walkers struggle to devise full-day walks using the Wainwright guide books. Yes, he has detailed pretty much every conceivable way of getting to each individual summit, but this leaves the reader having to then come up with their own plan to make a longer day of it by continuing over one or more other fells. Wainwright didn't describe day walks in these seven guidebooks. He described individual ways up and down each one. So, please buy the Wainwright guidebooks if you haven't got them on your bookshelves already. Just use them alongside this book.
Number of pages: 272 Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
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Description We have known Graham Uney for a long time as he was the Fell Top Assessor on Helvellyn for many years & we have been on his winter skills courses which are well worth doing. He is a very capable mountaineer, a great mountain guide who is a pleasure to spend time with, and it turns out a very good author too.
This is a great book for Wainwright Baggers but also for anyone who wants to get up a few summits on the same walk to make the most of your day in the hills. It is split into the 7 areas covered by Wainwrights Pictorial Guides so where ever you are in the Lakes you can use this book to have a great day out and get on top of a few hills.
In this book you'll find 64 routes that, if you complete them all, by default you will also have completed the Wainwrights. A few of the summits are featured in more than one walk. That's ok. You can do them more than once!
Why do we need a guide book on the fells of the Lake District if Wainwright wrote seven of them? Well, I should say right here that this book is not intended to replace Wainwright's Pictorial Guides. They are superb books. But, they were written in the 1950s and 60s, and yes, some things in the hills have changed in the intervening years. Another reason is that many walkers struggle to devise full-day walks using the Wainwright guide books. Yes, he has detailed pretty much every conceivable way of getting to each individual summit, but this leaves the reader having to then come up with their own plan to make a longer day of it by continuing over one or more other fells. Wainwright didn't describe day walks in these seven guidebooks. He described individual ways up and down each one. So, please buy the Wainwright guidebooks if you haven't got them on your bookshelves already. Just use them alongside this book.
Number of pages: 272 Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
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