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, (although if anyone would like an Access database or Excel spreadsheet with all the Wainwrights listed with heights, book and queries ready set up to let you know dates, peaks left to do sorted by height, book etc, please send me an email - david@loweswater.com ). 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.

 

 

 

 

And 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