Three Peaks, Ten Tors - a Guidebook to UK Challenge Walks

A guidebook to walking a long-distance or challenge route in the UK – with both serious and humorous approaches. Plus notes on planning and undertaking 15 such routes throughout the country, from the National Three Peaks Challenge to the Dartmoor Ten Tors route.

A look both serious and humorous at what it takes to do a long-distance or challenge walk – the mental toughness, experience, the slight madness – plus notes on planning and undertaking the best such routes.

Ronald Turnbull, veteran of many a long-distance and challenge walk, intersperses sound advice with wry recollections of his experience of the National Three Peaks Challenge and other such routes throughout the British Isles.

Suitable for aspiring or novice long-distance walkers, the guide provides tips on how to minimise the suffering, to stay safe, to raise money for charity perhaps, and to find a surprising amount of enjoyment along the way. Old hands will enjoy comparing their experiences with the author’s reminiscences of the highs and lows of long-distance routes.

• Information on 15 long-distance and challenge routes from the National Three Peaks Challenge to the Dartmoor Ten Tors route
• Route outlines and schedules
• Tips on minimizing the environmental impact of challenge routes
• Suggestions for new ‘three peaks’ and other long-distance routes

Includes sections on the following routes:
•  National Three Peaks
•  Yorkshire Three Peaks
•  Lancashire Three Peaks
•  Three Peaks of Somerset
•  Ten Tors (Dartmoor)
•  Lyke Wake Walk
•  Derwent Watershed
•  Across Wales Walk
•  Lairig Ghru
•  Fifty from your Front Door
    (do-it-yourself)
•  Welsh 3000s
•  Lakes 3000s
•  Cumbria’s Old Country Tops
•  Cairngorm 4000s
•  Mourne’s Seven Sevens
•  Tranters’ Walk (Lochaber)