Backpacking Guides for Walking in the UK

Backpacking involves carrying all your equipment with you on a route. For those who relish the freedom and independence this brings, there can be no finer way of exploring wild places. The key to success is packing thoroughly, using lightweight gear.
 
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The Book of the Bivvy
A guidebook on bivvybag skills and expeditions. Accounts of bivvybag nights and expeditions, both nice and nasty, alternate with practical chapters on lightweight kit. Finally a selection of bivvybag expeditions. Hilarious (and informative) reading! An updated second edition. More…
Moveable Feasts
Moveable Feasts contains all you need to plan your camp cooking. Part one has advice on nutrition, camp cooking equipment, water, packing food, camping with children and wild foods. Part two has nearly 100 recipes for camp meals with an index highlighting high-energy, lightweight, child-friendly, vegetarian, prepare-at-home and super-quick recipes. More…
Backpacker’s Britain: Central and Southern Scottish Highlands
A guide to backpacking in the Central and Southern Highlands of Scotland, with 30 trekking routes – ranging from 2 to 7 days in length - over the highest peaks in Britain. And these wild mountains, rocky coasts and long, winding glens are all within a couple of hours’ drive of Edinburgh or Glasgow. More…
The End to End Trail
A guidebook covering a 1935km (1200 miles) walk the length of Britain from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland, concentrating on the 'missing links' between the main long-distance trails covered in other guidebooks. The route is divided into 61 daily stages averaging just less than 32km (20 miles). More…
The National Trails
£16.99
Guidebook to Britain's National Trails - 19 long-distance walking routes through England, Wales and Scotland, describing what makes each of them so special and providing the practical information to help you plan your route. A definitive reference to the best of British walking. More…
Three Peaks, Ten Tors
A guidebook by veteran walker Ronald Turnbull 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. More…
Backpacker’s Britain: Northern Scotland
The guidebook covers 30 multi-day backpacking routes in northern Scotland’s highlands and islands. Routes take walkers along rugged coastlines from the Shetland Islands to the Rough Bounds of Knoydart, and across mountain ridges from northern Skye to Glen Affric. Routes of 2, 3 and 5 days. More…
Backpacker's Britain: Wales
£12.00
Guidebook includes 25 two- or three-day walks taking walkers into the most scenic and wild parts of Wales, from Snowdon, the Glyderau and Carneddau in the north, down to the Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons and Fforest Fawr ranges in the south, including the superb ridges of the Arans, Arenigs, Berwyns and Cadair Idris, the Cwmdeuddwr hills and Plynlimon. More…
Backpacker's Britain: Northern England
A guidebook to walking 25 great backpacker’s routes throughout northern England from the Yorkshire Dales and the Forest of Bowland, to the Lake District, the Pennines, and up to the Cheviots on the Scottish border. Tough routes if done in one day, but good two-day outings in remote spots. More…
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