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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is
recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking,
horse riding and off-road cycling. The OS Explorer range of OL maps
now includes a digital version of the paper map, accessed through
the OS smartphone app, OS Maps. Providing complete GB coverage the
series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs
and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths
and bridleways.
The 40 routes in this guidebook offer some of the best trail
running, fell running and sky running routes in the Lake District
National Park, one of the world's great mountain running regions.
Each route has been carefully graded to indicate terrain and
difficulty so that the runner can select a route that suits their
ability or aspirations for the day. Routes range from 5 miles to 21
miles, and include classics such as the Helvellyn skyline, Langdale
Horseshoe, Borrowdale and Scafell Pike direct. Detailed route
descriptions and OS map extracts accompany each route, along with
key facts, including distance, ascent, descent, timings, maps,
transport and parking. There is a useful introduction explaining
the history of trail and fell running in the Lake District, along
with advice about the best bases for a trail running holiday,
equipment and adapting to running off road. There is a rich history
of mountain running in the UK, and for many the Lake District is
the spiritual home of fell running. Whether you want to follow the
course of some of the classic fell races, or explore some of the
quieter corners of the national park, the aim of this book is to
inspire you to enjoy this thrilling sport in one of its greatest
playgrounds.
Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the
past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their
sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces
their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter
Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing more than to be taken for a
vagabond in the wilds of southern England - to modern
walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each,
walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the
Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into
being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a
beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us
through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by
these ten pathfinding women.
This attractive and cleverly structured guidebook gives dog walkers
access to the finest dog walks in the Lake District. The cafes and
tea rooms have been chosen on the basis that dogs are allowed
inside thus ensuring the enjoyment of both dog and owner, whatever
the weather. With clear information, an introduction for each walk,
and simple, easy-to-read maps, this beautiful book will appeal to
all who want to venture out into the countryside with their dogs.
The walks are for all levels of fitness and abilities and having no
stiles ensures a hassle free walk for both dog and owner. Areas
included are: Keswick, Glenridding, Pooley Bridge, Grasmere,
Hawkshead, Coniston, Ambleside, and Windermere. Both authors are
experienced walkers, qualified in mountain leadership and
countryside management.With clear information, an introduction for
each walk, and simple, easy-to-read maps, this beautiful book will
appeal to all who want to venture out into the countryside with
their dogs. The walks are for all levels of fitness and abilities
and having no stiles ensures a hassle free walk for both dog and
owner. Areas included are: Keswick, Glenridding, Pooley Bridge,
Grasmere, Hawkshead, Coniston, Ambleside, and Windermere. Both
authors are experienced walkers, qualified in mountain leadership
and countryside management.
This is the incredibly popular and indispensable guide to ski
mountaineering routes in Scotland from the Scottish Mountaineering
Club. Written by two experts and illustrated with colour
photographs and route maps, this facsimile reprint covers the hills
from the Borders to Ben Rinnes, Mamlorn to Moruisg, with photos
that inspire. The reprint has the same 112 photographs and 72 maps,
121 pages as the original. This is the first and most sought-after
guidebook to ski mountaineering in Scotland, first published in
1987 and unavailable since 2011.
The North Downs Way National Trail is a 130 mile (208km) between
the high downland of Farnham and the historic city of Dover on the
Kent coast. The route is described in 11 day stages from west to
east with an optional detour via Canterbury. Step-by-step route
descriptions are fully illustrated with colour photographs and
extracts from OS 1:50,000 mapping for every stage. The guidebook
comes with a separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps showing
the full route of the North Downs Way. Clear step-by-step route
descriptions in the guide link together with the map booklet at
each stage along the Way, and the compact format is conveniently
sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack.
The North Downs Way is one of the easier national trails with a
modest number of steep (but short) ascents and descents and long
sections with no noticeable height gain or loss. Several historic
sites including Neolithic burial chambers, Roman roads and Norman
churches are passed and much of the route follows The Pilgrims'
Way.
Set to a backdrop of several rock climbing and mountaineering
venues, this book commences in the Todhra Gorge of Morocco, and
includes slate climbing in North Wales, winter on Ben Nevis,
climbing walls and competitions, Fontainebleau, the Alps and
Himalaya, and vignettes of the gay scene in London and Paris.
This guide covers walks in the dramatic landscape of Wester Ross,
in the area between Torridon in the north and Glenelg in the south.
The 31 walks featured range from 0.75 miles to 12 miles (1-19km).
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