Great Mountain Days in the Pennines: 50 classic hillwalking routes

by Terry Marsh

Overview

An inspirational large-format guidebook describing 50 walks in the Pennine mountains. Exploring all aspects of this beautiful upland area, the walks are graded with plenty of inspirational options for both first-time and experienced walkers.

• Routes range from 10-21km (6-13 miles) and can be enjoyed in 3-7 hours
• Covers the North Pennines, Howgills, Yorkshire Dales, South Pennines and Dark Peak
• Routes include Cross Fell, Wild Boar Fell, Ingleborough, Whernside, Pen-y-Ghent, Pendle Hill, Kinder Downfall and a traverse of Ilkley Moor
• Clear route description alongside 1:50,000 OS mapping reproduced at 1:40,000 for greater clarity
• Many routes are suitable for fell running

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849658911
Publisher:	Cicerone Press
Publication date:	03/22/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	40 MB
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About the Author

Terry Marsh is a well-known outdoor writer. As a leading light in the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, he has written extensively on long-distance trails in the UK and about Scotland's national parks.
Lancashire-born writer and photographer Dr Terry Marsh specialises in the outdoors and travel. He has been writing guidebooks since the mid-1980s, and is the author or revision author/editor of over 100 titles, including the award-winning Cicerone guides to the Coast to Coast Walk (first published in 1993), The Shropshire Way (1999) and Great Mountain Days in the Pennines (2013). Terry has a long-standing interest in Cumbria and the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. Academically, he is an historical geographer holding a Master of Arts degree with Distinction in Lake District Studies and a PhD in Historical Geography. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), a Life Member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSA (Scot)).

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction About this guide Weather to walk? Before you start THE WALKS North Pennines 1 Thack Moor and Black Fell 2 Melmerby Fell and Fiend's Fell 3 Cross Fell 4 High Cup Nick and Backstone Edge 5 Cauldron Snout and Widdybank Fell 6 High Force and Cronkley Fell 7 Harter Fell and Grassholme 8 Bowes Moor North West Dales - Eden Valley and The Howgills 9 Hartley Fell and Nine Standards Rigg 10 Lunds Fell, Hugh Seat and High Seat 11 Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell 12 Green Bell 13 The Fairmile Circuit 14 Cautley Spout and The Calf 15 The Calf from Sedbergh Yorkshire Dales 16 Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat 17 Upper Swaledale and Rogan's Seat 18 Dodd Fell Hill and Drumaldrace 19 Gragareth and Great Coum 20 Whernside 21 Ingleborough 22 Giggleswick Scar 23 Nappa Cross, Rye Loaf Hill and Victoria Cave 24 Pen-y-Ghent and Plover Hill 25 Fountains Fell 26 Janet's Foss, Gordale Scar and Malham Cove 27 Buckden Pike 28 Great Whernside 29 Cracoe Fell and Thorpe Fell 30 Elslack Moor and Pinhaw Beacon 31 Rombalds Moor and Ilkley Moor South Pennines 32 Pendle Hill 33 Boulsworth Hill 34 Delf Hill and Stanbury Moor 35 Wadsworth Moor 36 Worsthorne Moor and Black Hameldon 37 Thieveley Pike and Cliviger Gorge 38 Bride Stones Moor 39 Luddenden Dean and Midgeley Moor 40 Stoodley Pike 41 Langfield Common 42 Blackstone Edge 43 Rooley Moor and Cowpe Lowe 44 White Hill and Piethorne Clough Dark Peak 45 Saddleworth Edges 46 Lord's Seat and Mam Tor 47 Kinder Downfall 48 Rowlee Pasture and Alport Castles 49 Back Tor and Derwent Edge 50 Stanage Edge Appendix 1 Concise walk reference and personal log Appendix 2 Bibliography Index