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

A look both serious and humorous at what it takes to do a long-distance or challenge walk – plus notes on planning and undertaking 15 such routes throughout the UK, from the National Three Peaks Challenge to the Dartmoor Ten Tors route.

Key to Route Maps   
Map: Location of the Walks
   
Introduction   

PART I: THE NATIONAL THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE

 

1 Introducing the Three Big Hills   
    Ben Nevis   
    Scafell Pike   
    Snowdon   

2 The National Three Peaks Challenge:
Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon within 24 hours   
    Planning   
    The route: Ben Nevis   
    The route: Scafell Pike   
    The route: Snowdon   
    Variants   

3 The National Three Peaks Challenge by Public Transport   
    The good, the bad, and the mystery socks   
    Challenges and the imagination   
    The Three Peaks by bus   

PART II: THREE PEAKS RATHER CLOSER TOGETHER  

4 The Yorkshire Three Peaks: Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough   
    Route and schedule   
    Adventures of the invisible worm – a winter’s night on the Yorkshire Three Peaks   
    Up Ingleborough underground   

5 The Lancashire Three Peaks: Longridge Fell, Easington Fell, Pendle   
    Pen-y-ghent – or Pendle?   
    Route and schedule   

6 Everywhere has Three Peaks in it   
    Peaks in threes   
    The Three Peaks of Somerset: Dunkery Beacon, Periton Hill, Selworthy Beacon   
    The Marilyns: 1554 hills you probably haven’t heard of
  

PART III: MORE AND MOOR  

7 A Weakness for Bleakness  

8 The Dartmoor Ten Tors: 50 Miles of Moorland over Two Days   
    History and geography   
    Ten Tors for grown-ups   

9 Mastery of Misery: The Lyke Wake Walk   
    The easiest walk in England?   
    Route and schedule   

10 The Derwent Watershed: 39 Miles in the Dark Peak
    For Peat’s sake   
    Route and schedule   

11 The Across Wales Walk: From the English Border to the Sea over Plynlimon   
    Walking across Wales   
    Brief route and schedule 

12 The Lairig Ghru: The Great Through-route of the Cairngorms 
    Through the Ghru   
    Route and schedule  

PART IV: SURVIVAL  

13 Time and Space: The Fundamentals   

14 Fifty from your Front Door: A Southern Upland Story

15 A Hundred Miles at Once: Two Days and Nights over Exmoor   
    The Exmoor Hundred   
    Survival skills: Sore legs and feeling sick  

PART V: RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH 

16 The Welsh 3000s: 15 Peaks in One Day  
    Brief route and schedule   
    Foel-fras to Snowdon with extra fun   

17 The Lakes at Length: Lakes 3000s and Old County Tops  
    Stuffing the daffodils   
    Lakes 3000s brief route and schedule   
    Old County Tops brief route and schedule   

18 The Cairngorm 4000s: Five Granite Giants in a Day   
    Brief route and schedule   
    Getting the wind up   

19 The Mourne Seven Sevens: All Northern Ireland’s 700m Peaks   
    Brief route and schedule   
    Mourne is never less   

20 Tranter’s Walk: 18 Munros around Glen Nevis  
    The freedom to fall   
    Brief route and schedule   

21 Start/Finish   

Appendix 1 Information and Internet   

Appendix 2 Walks Summary   

Index