A difficult route in Lake District. Check the GPS track on Outdooractive for full details of the route, waypoints, and terrain.
Starting Point: Patterdale Car Park (NY 395 159)
IMPORTANT — MOUNTAIN SAFETY: This is a serious and demanding Lake District mountain walk covering five Wainwright summits with over 1,000m of ascent. The route includes pathless sections, a steep bank crossing and some hands-on scrambling through crags near St Sunday Crag. This walk is suitable for experienced hill walkers with appropriate clothing, footwear and equipment. Check the weather forecast before setting out
A magnificent and personal day in the eastern Lake District, combining a fine horseshoe ridge walk with an unforgettable milestone. The route climbs from Patterdale via the Coast to Coast path to Arnison Crag and then sweeps southwest through Birks and St Sunday Crag — where the views towards Helvellyn are as good as anything the eastern fells can offer — before the steep climb past Cofa Pike to Fairfield, one of the ten highest peaks in England. The encounter on Fairfield's summit with a blister-stricken fellow walker is one of those moments that stick in the memory: a little persistence, a packet of blister plasters and a handshake — the currency of the hills. Hart Crag follows with its sweeping view down to Ambleside and Windermere, and then, while the crowds head for Dove Crag, the route breaks northeast toward the modest summit of Hartsop above How and its famously unimpressive cairn. But the views are anything but unimpressive, and as Tony's 200th Wainwright it will always hold a very special place in this collection. A landmark day and a brilliant walk.