Three peaks, ten tors : long-distance and challenge walks in the UK : tools and techniques, routes and reminiscences /: long-distance and challenge walks in the UK : tools and techniques, routes and reminiscences. (2010)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Three peaks, ten tors : long-distance and challenge walks in the UK : tools and techniques, routes and reminiscences /: long-distance and challenge walks in the UK : tools and techniques, routes and reminiscences. (2010)
- Main Title:
- Three peaks, ten tors : long-distance and challenge walks in the UK : tools and techniques, routes and reminiscences
- Further Information:
- Note: By Ronald Turnbull.
- Authors:
- Turnbull, Ronald, 1951-
- Contents:
- Key to Route Maps Map: Location of the Walks Introduction PART I: THE NATIONAL THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE 1 Introducing the Three Big Hills Ben Nevis Scafell Pike Snowdon 2 The National Three Peaks Challenge: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon within 24 hours Planning The route: Ben Nevis The route: Scafell Pike The route: Snowdon Variants 3 The National Three Peaks Challenge by Public Transport The good, the bad, and the mystery socks Challenges and the imagination The Three Peaks by bus PART II: THREE PEAKS RATHER CLOSER TOGETHER 4 The Yorkshire Three Peaks: Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough Route and schedule Adventures of the invisible worm - a winter's night on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Up Ingleborough underground 5 The Lancashire Three Peaks: Longridge Fell, Easington Fell, . Pendle Pen-y-ghent - or Pendle? Route and schedule 6 Everywhere has Three Peaks in it Peaks in threes The Three Peaks of Somerset: Dunkery Beacon, Periton Hill, . Selworthy Beacon The Marilyns: 1554 hills you probably haven't heard of PART III: MORE AND MOOR 7 A Weakness for Bleakness 8 The Dartmoor Ten Tors: 50 Miles of Moorland over Two Days History and geography Ten Tors for grown-ups 9 Mastery of Misery: The Lyke Wake Walk The easiest walk in England? Route and schedule 10 The Derwent Watershed: 39 Miles in the Dark Peak For Peat's sake Route and schedule 11 The Across Wales Walk: From the English Border to the Sea over Plynlimon Walking across Wales Brief route and schedule 12 The Lairig Ghru:Key to Route Maps Map: Location of the Walks Introduction PART I: THE NATIONAL THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE 1 Introducing the Three Big Hills Ben Nevis Scafell Pike Snowdon 2 The National Three Peaks Challenge: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon within 24 hours Planning The route: Ben Nevis The route: Scafell Pike The route: Snowdon Variants 3 The National Three Peaks Challenge by Public Transport The good, the bad, and the mystery socks Challenges and the imagination The Three Peaks by bus PART II: THREE PEAKS RATHER CLOSER TOGETHER 4 The Yorkshire Three Peaks: Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough Route and schedule Adventures of the invisible worm - a winter's night on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Up Ingleborough underground 5 The Lancashire Three Peaks: Longridge Fell, Easington Fell, . Pendle Pen-y-ghent - or Pendle? Route and schedule 6 Everywhere has Three Peaks in it Peaks in threes The Three Peaks of Somerset: Dunkery Beacon, Periton Hill, . Selworthy Beacon The Marilyns: 1554 hills you probably haven't heard of PART III: MORE AND MOOR 7 A Weakness for Bleakness 8 The Dartmoor Ten Tors: 50 Miles of Moorland over Two Days History and geography Ten Tors for grown-ups 9 Mastery of Misery: The Lyke Wake Walk The easiest walk in England? Route and schedule 10 The Derwent Watershed: 39 Miles in the Dark Peak For Peat's sake Route and schedule 11 The Across Wales Walk: From the English Border to the Sea over Plynlimon Walking across Wales Brief route and schedule 12 The Lairig Ghru: The Great Through-route of the Cairngorms Through the Ghru Route and schedule PART IV: SURVIVAL 13 Time and Space: The Fundamentals 14 Fifty from your Front Door: A Southern Upland Story 15 A Hundred Miles at Once: Two Days and Nights over Exmoor The Exmoor Hundred Survival skills: Sore legs and feeling sick PART V: RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH . 16 The Welsh 3000s: 15 Peaks in One Day Brief route and schedule Foel-fras to Snowdon with extra fun 17 The Lakes at Length: Lakes 3000s and Old County Tops Stuffing the daffodils Lakes 3000s brief route and schedule Old County Tops brief route and schedule 18 The Cairngorm 4000s: Five Granite Giants in a Day Brief route and schedule Getting the wind up 19 The Mourne Seven Sevens: All Northern Ireland's 700m Peaks Brief route and schedule Mourne is never less 20 Tranter's Walk: 18 Munros around Glen Nevis The freedom to fall Brief route and schedule 21 Start/Finish Appendix 1 Information and Internet Appendix 2 Walks Summary Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Milnthorpe, Cumbria : Cicerone
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Copyright Date:
- 2007
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (251 pages), illustrations (colour), maps (colour)
- Subjects:
- 796.510941
Hiking -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
Trails -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781849651479
1849651477 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781852845018
1852845015 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.3017
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