Lakes Hiker

Length: 5 days / 4 nights

Thu 9 Apr – Mon 13 Apr
Mon 15 Jun – Fri 19 Jun
Mon 7 Sep – Fri 11 Sep

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Grade: Demanding

Suitable for experienced hikers
with a good level of fitness

The Lakes Hiker is aimed at the keen mountain walker. who likes a challenge. During this tour we will be hiking the great slate giants of the Northern Fells with distant views over the Solway to Scotland, scrambling on the rocky buttresses of the volcanic hub, striding out on the rolling ridges of the Eastern fells , and exploring the wild reaches of the Western fells overlooking the Cumbrian coastline.

Home to the Victorian poets of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Ruskin, the English Lake District is England's premier National Park and a designated World Heritage Site. It. offers the most dramatic and contrasting scenery in England from its rugged mountains and wild fells, to its green lake-bejewelled valleys, from the old world charm of its small communities, to the bustle of its market towns and climbing centres. Here you will find a variety of experience and scenic beauty second to none in Britain.

We have two itineraries to cater for the keen hiker and for those who prefer shorter, easier walks. Both are carefully designed to provide a broad picture of Lakeland by people who live there. Both these itineraries provide an all inclusive package of guided hiking or walking and touring in the Lake District during a five day vacation. It is easily possible to extend your trip in the Lake District with self-guided days where we will make all your travel and accommodation arrangements, and provide you with ideas and route cards for further hikes or activities in and around the National Park.

One of the Lake District's most celebrated residents, the poet William Wordsworth likened it to a vast wheel with the mountains of the Scafell group at the hub and the high ridges that radiate from it as the spokes. Between the spokes lie the valleys great and small, carved long ago by the glaciers of the last ice age. The sixteen major lakes which radiate out from the mountainous hub of Lakeland each present a different character. Some are quiet and somber like the remote Wastwater, deepest of them all beneath Scafell, the highest mountain in England. Some are bustling with activity as sail boats and ferries ply their waters, such as Derwentwater in the North and Windermere, the longest of them all, in the south. Others like Buttermere in the west and Ullswater in the east are simply picture perfect.

Lakes Explorer

Length: 5 days / 4 nights

Thu 9 Apr – Mon 13 Apr
Mon 22 Jun – Fri 26 Jun
Mon 21 Sep – Fri 26 Sep

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Grade: Moderate

Suitable for novice/moderate hikers
with an average level of fitness

Our special explorer itinerary is designed to give you an insight into the Lake District as a whole. An examination of its many and varied charms by road, by boat and on foot. On each day we have a moderate walk of between 4 and 6 miles, and this trip will include driving over high mountain passes, cruises on Ullswater and Derwentwater, and visits to places of historic and literary interest, as well as a variety of villages which make up the essential character of Lakeland.

Trip Dossiers

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