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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Walking, hiking, trekking
This attractive and cleverly structured guidebook gives walkers the
ten finest routes around or beside the Lake District's best-known
lakes, in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an
overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered
directions, Ordance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic
photographs, and interpretation of points of interest along the
way, these guides set a new standard in clarity and ease-of-use.
Featured lakes include: Windermere, Coniston Water, Rydal Water and
Grasmere, Ullswater, Thirlmere, Derwent Water, Buttermere, Crummock
Water, Loweswater, and, Ennerdale Water.
Originally published in 1970, this text has been fully revised in
this 2005 4th edition. Over 300 climbs, scrambles and walks in
Norway's spectacular Romsdal mountains. Includes accommodation,
equipment, weather and maps. Climbs of all grades and lengths and
advice on bouldering, winter climbing and skiing.
This guide brings together a selection of the best walks in the
Western Lakes and its surrounding area. The walks include town
trails, coastal walks and routes through woodland and farmland and
on the high moors.
Scratch Off Wainwright Hill-bagging Print is the perfect gift for
walkers / hill climbers or lovers of the Lake District.Scratch off
the Wainwrights as you climb them. Keep your running total too.
Happy climbing!Scratch Off Wainwright Hill-bagging Print is part of
our Collect and Scratch collection and shows all 214 Wainwright
fells including their heights, covered by a scratch-off latex. This
allows you to document each one you have 'Bagged' by scratching off
the foil to reveal some colour underneath. Also featured on the map
is a tally that you can update with a dry wipe pen as you go along
so you can see how many more you need to 'Bag'.This map is a great
gift for a walking/climbing enthusiast whether they have never
climbed a Wainwright or they know the Lake District like the back
of their hands. This is an inspiring map designed with an avid
walker in mind, aiming to fuel their enthusiasm encouraging them to
climb as many as they can!
Shaded Relief Topo Maps packet of the famous Sierra High Route that
will take hikers from Mount Whitney to Yosemite, CA. Well marked
trails over USGS topo maps that were beautifully enhanced with
shaded relief to better distinguish details. Scale 1:630360. 1 inch
on map equals 1 mile. Whitney Portal, Symmes Creek, Onion Valley,
Oak Creek, Taboose Creek, North and South Lakes, Vermilion, Bear
Creek, Florence Lake, Pine Creek, Mono Pass, McGee Creek, Devils
Postpile, Mammoth Lakes, Agnew Meadows, Silver Lake, Tuolomne
Meadows, and finally the Yosemite Valley. GPS Compatible! -
Complete UTM Grid.
Following on from the new "Pocket Mountains Town and Country"
series of shorter walks, this guidebook explores the stunning coast
and countryside of the Kingdom of Fife.Featured here you'll find 40
inspiring short walks in and around the Kingdom, stretching from
the north side of the famous Forth Bridges, along the Firth of
Forth to Culross, and Gleneagles and Dollar further north, and then
east beyond Kirkcaldy to the string of picturesque fishing villages
of the East Neuk. The volume travels north through Dunfermline and
Glenrothes to Falkland and beyond to St Andrews, Tentsmuir Forest
and the mighty Tay, with forays also into Kinross.Ranging from
lochside nature trails to short, exhilarating routes up into the
Lomond and Ochil Hills to the best stretches of the Fife Coastal
Trail and circuits around historic towns and villages, this book is
all you need to really discover Fife.Many of these circular routes
are suitable for families and accessible by public transport.
Guidebook and Ordnance Survey map booklet to the Coast to Coast
Walk. The route stretches some 188 miles (302km) from St Bees on
Cumbria's west coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire. It is
suitable for most fit walkers and can be comfortably walked in
around a fortnight. The full Coast to Coast route is described from
west to east in 13 stages of between 10 and 21 miles, with high and
low-level alternatives for crossing the Yorkshire Dales and
comprehensive route summaries for those preferring to walk the
trail in the opposite direction. The guidebook comes with a
separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps showing the full
route. Clear step-by-step route descriptions in the guide are
illustrated by 1:100,000 OS map extracts. The route description
links 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. A comprehensive trek
planner offers a helpful overview of facilities on route, and full
accommodation listings and useful contacts can be found in the
appendices. There is also a wealth of background information
covering geology, history, wildlife and plants, and a list of
further reading.
Best Easy Day Hikes Lake Tahoe includes concise descriptions and
detailed maps of 27 of the premier easy day hikes in northern
California's most popular recreational destination. The hikes
circle the lake, from the west shore to the east; from the slopes
below Mount Rose to South Lake Tahoe. Whether you want spectacular
Tahoe views, secluded rambles, alpine tarns, or journeys through
historic resorts, you'll find them in this guide. Discover the
Tahoe basin's natural wonders by dropping into Skunk Harbor,
cruising to Galena Falls, climbing along the storied Tahoe Rim and
Pacific Crest Trails, and catching your breath in secluded mountain
meadows.
Edinburgh is one of the most richly layered historical cities in
the world, with the medieval layout of the Old Town and the
neoclassicism of the Georgian New Town attracting visitors from all
over the world. Like Rome, Edinburgh has its Seven Hills, while two
waterways slip unseen through the capital. These 25 walks feature
the best of the city, as well as the harbours beaches and nature
reserves of the Firth of Forth, the hills and glens of the
Pentlands and the parkland of some of the finest nearby country
estates.
In his newest publication, Storer concentrates on the history of
the Corrour Bothy. The book tells the story of the oldest and most
famous bothy in the world, celebrating a century of public use in
2020. The book blends guidebook entries with historical accounts.
Through guidebook entries between the years of 1928 and 2019,
Storer outlines bothy life, the history of the Highlands, of
hillwalking and of climbing and thereby provides a portrait of the
past 100 years from a unique perspective centred on the Scottish
Highlands.
This guidebook describes 30 circular walks in Scotland's Pentland
Hills, a range of low summits which extends between Edinburgh and
Biggar in South Lanarkshire. Ranging from 3 to 27km (2-17 miles),
there is something to suit all abilities from the novice to the
experienced hill-walker, with each route showcasing a different
aspect of the area's unique character. Step-by-step route
description is accompanied by 1:50,000 OS mapping and a wealth of
interesting information on the region's rich natural and cultural
heritage: its geology, history, wildlife and connections with
literary greats such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter
Scott. Local place names are explained, local folklore explored and
there is a helpful glossary of dialect terms. The Pentland Hills
can be enjoyed in all seasons. Although the highest summit, Scald
Law, stands at 579m, stunning vistas belie their modest elevation:
this is a region of grass and heather-clad slopes which rise above
picturesque valleys hiding streams and reservoirs. Walking in the
Pentland Hills is an ideal companion to discovering great walking
on Scotland's most accessible hills.
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is
recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking,
horse riding and off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB
coverage and can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active, a tough, versatile version of OS Explorer. The OS
Explorer Active range now includes a digital version of the paper
map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.
Much of central Dartmoor is an uninhabited wilderness almost free
of villages, farms, trees and roads making it outstanding
environmental value. From this mass rise Dartmoor's rivers,
including the Lyd, Tavy, East and West Dart, Bovey, Teign, Taw and
Okement, nearly all of which flow southwards to the English
Channel. The large numbers of tors that dominate Dartmoor are the
remnants of hard masses of granite, drastically reduced in size and
moulded into their present shapes by millions of years of
weatherings. Bowerman's Nose, Hound Tor and Haytor Rocks are famous
examples included on these walks.
Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered
via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. This new edition
includes a previously unpublished epigraph in the form of a walk.
When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the
late 1970s, he was not aware that he was travelling through a
vanishing landscape. These hills would have seemed familiar to
Christ, until the day concrete was poured over the flora and
irreversible changes were brought about by those who claim a
superior love of the land. Six walks span a period of twenty-six
years, in the hills around Ramallah, in the Jerusalem wilderness
and through the ravines by the Dead Sea. Each walk takes place at a
different stage of Palestinian history since 1982, the first in the
empty pristine hills and the last amongst the settlements and the
wall. The reader senses the changing political atmosphere as well
as the physical transformation of the landscape. By recording how
the land felt and looked before these calamities, Raja Shehadeh
attempts to preserve, at least in words, the Palestinian natural
treasures that many Palestinians will never know.
This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of
the finest short, circular, themed walks in the Peak District
National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear
information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly
written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps,
superb eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of
points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard
in clarity and ease-of-use. Featured walks include: Peacock Inn,
Bakewell - pub walk, Dovedale - dales and valleys, Castleton and
Cave Dale - dales and valleys, Chatsworth - history walk, Stanage
Edge - rocks and edges, Lud's Church - history walk, Three Shires
Head - waterside walk, The Roaches - rocks and edges, Shutlingsloe
- moors and tors, Edge of Kinder - moors and tors.
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