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| Winter - Time to check your gear | |||
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| Hills Database Updated | |||
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| Being Prepared | |||
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| Leave Only Pawprints | |||
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| Mountain Rescue Box ransacked | |||
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| A Happy Lake District Story | |||
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| Lost in the Lakes | |||
| Wasdale MRT Open Day | |||
| No More Accommodation Adverts | |||
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| February | |||
| The Perils of Relying on a Smartphone | |||
| Hill Top Bagging | |||
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| January | |||
| Challenging Paths | |||
| Looking Forward to a New Year | |||
2022 | |||
| December | |||
| Email problems | |||
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| November | |||
| Hills Database Updated | |||
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| October | |||
| New Scafell Pike Walk | |||
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01/12/14
• A Concise Description of the English Lakes
Reading this 1827 book by Jonathan Otley Beth has come across some interesting snippets of historical interest.
I was researching something a while ago, not that I can remember what it was now, and came across this book. It's full title is a bit of a mouthful: A Concise Description of the English Lakes and Adjacent Mountains: With General Notices to Tourists; Notices of the Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology of the District; Observations on Meterology; The Floating Island in Derwent Lake; and The Black-Lead Mine in Borrowdale, by Jonathan Otley. read more ... |
WalkLakes recognises that hill walking, or walking in the mountains, is an activity with a danger of personal injury or death.
Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions.
Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions.