Like many I always loved the fells, but ever really intended to get into all this bagging nonsense, but after a few years of walking with my son Andrew - in the days before he realised how sad, old & uncool I really am - I realised I'd done over half of them so it seemed rude not to do the rest. Must be one of the longer efforts- I started in (about) 1962 and finished in 2003, although I'm sure someone can beat that.

 

It becomes a seriously obsessive process, on occasions I was doing three separate shortish walks in a day to knock off some of the smaller ones, or worse trekking back to do one I'd either walked past previously or couldn't be certain whether I had done in the past. I'm sure someone somewhere must have produced an itinerary.

 

This is not intended to be a guide - plenty of those so please use them - it is not detailed or even remotely exhaustive. This is just a few suggestions & combinations of fells that don't necessarily appear in the guides, plus of course reminiscences & an excuse for putting some nice pics online.

 

 

 

This is subjective as such a list has to be & skewed towards the northern lakes. could list lots & lots but limiting myself to a few  & sticking to Wainwright routes here - there are some much more exciting routes in the various scrambling guides:

 

 

 

 

 

Has to be winter in the Hellvellyn range - went on for ages in 2006 - with a wind chill it was every bit as cold as it looks.

 

 

 

 

Although winter 2209/10 wasn't bad, but it was so cold that the snow stayed powdery

 

 

 

And finally two walks with a temperature inversion:

 

Skiddaw Dec 2006 

 

 

Grasmoor, Pillar & Scafell ranges  

 

 

 

Blencathra & Lonscale Fell

 

 

  

 

From Grasmoor End soon after sunrise

 

 

From Rannerdale Knot - early afternoon