Ready for adventure in the Lake District Fells? Cicerone’s Walking the Lake District Fells guides are your ultimate fell-by-fell companions. A series of eight guidebooks, one for each of the main valley bases, cover ALL the routes up ALL the fells in each area – that’s 230 fells in total. 

This guidebook covers 32 Lakeland summits that can be climbed from Buttermere, Crummock Water, Loweswater, Lorton and the Newlands valley. Highlights include Grasmoor, Haystacks, Grisedale Pike, High Stile and Rannerdale Knotts. Suggestions for longer ridge routes are also given. 

Those with some previous hiking experience will find all the info needed to climb the fells with confidence, plus a fresh perspective on both classic and lesser-known fells. Keen summit-baggers can use our tick lists to tick off the fells as they go. 

What sets these guidebooks apart from the rest? 

• Complete coverage – every route covered, not just the main one.  
• Devise your own routes – a variety of ascents, descents, and ridge routes, so you can choose to climb one fell or combine routes to craft your own adventure. 
• Up-to-date route information – complete route description and HARVEY mapping for each fell. 
• Hand-drawn topos and panoramas – easily see the routes up each fell and views from the top. 
• Fell-friendly routes – designed to minimise environmental impact.  

CONTENTS

Map key
Volumes in the series
Author preface
Starting points
INTRODUCTION
Valley bases
Fix the Fells
Using this guide
Safety and access
Additional online resources
FELLS
1 Ard Crags
2 Barrow
3 Blake Fell
4 Causey Pike
5 Crag Hill
6 Dale Head
7 Fellbarrow
8 Fleetwith Pike
9 Gavel Fell
10 Grasmoor
11 Great Borne
12 Grisedale Pike
13 Haystacks
14 Hen Comb
15 High Crag
16 High Stile
17 Hindscarth
18 Hopegill Head
19 Knock Murton
20 Knott Rigg
21 Low Fell
22 Mellbreak
23 Outerside
24 Rannerdale Knotts
25 Red Pike
26 Robinson
27 Sail
28 Scar Crags
29 Starling Dodd
30 Wandope
31 Whiteless Pike
32 Whiteside
RIDGE ROUTES
1 The Newlands Round
2 The Buttermere Round
3 The Grasmoor Fell-gather
4 The Coledale Horseshoe
 
More to explore
 
Appendix A Useful contacts
Appendix B A fellranger’s glossary
Appendix C Alphabetical list of fells in the Fellranger series

Seasons

Year-round walking. Winter walks, even on the lower fells, are not for the inexperienced or under-equipped.

Centres

Buttermere, Loweswater, Lorton, Lamplugh, Ennerdale, Black Sail Hut, Braithwaite, Keswick, Little Town (Newlands), Seatoller (Borrowdale)

Difficulty

Straightforward ascents on sometimes clear, sometimes faint paths, and occasionally pathless terrain, to be used as a basis for readers' own walks. Navigational skills are needed but no specialist equipment. Any scrambling is easy and non-scrambling alternatives are always provided.

Must See

A fresh perspective on classic summits in the Lakes including High Stile, Red Pike, Grasmoor, Grisedale Pike, Hopegill Head, Sail, Fleetwith Pike and Haystacks, and an inspiring introduction to lesser-known Lakeland fells such as Blake Fell and Knock Murton; superlative ridge walking including the iconic Coledale Horseshoe

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