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

• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Reviews

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 3 Peaks Challenge and other such routes throughout the British Isles.

Suitable for aspiring or novice long-distance walkers, the guidebook 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.

Includes route outlines and schedules, tips on minimizing the environmental impact of challenge routes and suggestions for new ‘3 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)