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For lovers of solitude, here on the Howgills is fellwalking par excellence.
Alfred Wainwright 1972
Who was Alfred Wainwright ?
Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991), was an English fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator. His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District. Among his 40-odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk, a 182-mile (293-kilometre) long-distance footpath devised by Wainwright which remains popular today. In 1972, AW as he was often known published Walks on the Howgill Fells and adjoining Fells comprising 32 fell walks on The Whinfell Ridge, The Howgill Fells and The Mallerstag-Garsdale-Rawthey Triangle. Each walk is the subject of a separate chapter and comes with handwritten descriptions and and ink drawings. Like his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, the Howgill Fells guide book is a work of art. It remains in publication by Westmorland Gazette today.
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A day on the Whinfell Ridge - 9 miles / 5 hours. From Huck's bridge this walk takes in three of Wainwrights walks in a single journey over Whinfell Common, Whinfell Beacon and Greyrigg Forest before either concluding on the eastern side of Borrowdale or returning back to our original start point by a lower path through the Borrowdale valley.
Winder and Arant Haw - 6 miles / 3 hours. This half day walk from Sedbergh takes us up Winder for superb views towards the Lake District, Morcambe Bay and the upper reaches of the Lune Valley. We then climb a little higher to Arant Haw, before descending its west ridge to crasedale back and thence back to Sedbergh.
Cautley Spout and the Calf - 6 miles / 3 hours. We meet at Cautley and visit England's highest above ground waterfall, climbing steadily up alongside it before making our way to the highest summit in the Howgills, the Calf (676m) and then return by another route.
A circuit of Wild Boar Fell - 8 miles / 5 hours. From Aisgill this high moorland walk ' savours of real mountaineering' according to AW. We visits an impressive limestone gorge before summitting Wild Boar Fell (708m), returning over Swarth Fell.
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