VICHIKINGCLUB

Description: A week of hiking in the beautiful English Lake District.
This will be a tough week with long walks every day. Although it is not a backpacking week, you will need to carry drinking water, food, waterproofs, extra fleece etc., because there is nowhere to buy refreshments, except in the valleys. There can be four seasons in one day on the Lakeland Fells, and there are no mountain huts or places to shelter. However, June is usually the best month weather-wise with long evenings – it does not get dark until after 10 pm. There will be foul weather options on most days, in case it is not safe to do the planned itinerary.

Route:
Saturday 13 June: Fly to Manchester airport. Transfer Manchester to Wasdale Head by mini-bus. Overnight Wasdale Head Inn or Lingmell House B&B, Wasdale Head. http://www.wasdale.com/
Sunday 14 June: Pillar Round, also known as the Mosedale Horseshoe. Back to Wasdale Head (D6). Overnight Wasdale Head Inn or Lingmell House B&B.
Monday 15 June: Scafell Pike (England’s highest mountain) and down to Borrowdale (D6). Overnight Keswick Youth Hostel. http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/keswick
Tuesday 16 June: Coledale Horseshoe (C6) or Blencathra via Sharp Edge (D6). Overnight Keswick Youth Hostel.
Wednesday 17 June: Helvellyn via Striding Edge (with Ron) (C/E 6) or Helvellyn (avoiding Striding Edge) (C6) with Christine and down to Grasmere. Overnight Ambleside Youth Hostel. http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/ambleside
Thursday 18 June: Langdale Pikes via Jack’s Rake, Bowfell (D7). Overnight New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Great Langdale. http://www.dungeon-ghyll.co.uk/
Friday 19 June: Old Man of Coniston or Fairfield Horseshoe (C6), overnight Ambleside Youth Hostel.
Saturday 20 June: Train to Manchester Airport for afternoon/evening flight back to Vienna or onward journey by public transport.

Map: 1:50 000 Ordnance Survey Map of the English Lake District

Meet: Manchester Airport Saturday 13 June (or a railway station between Ravenglass and Foxfield on the Cumbrian coastal route. Time to be determined).

Return: It’s up to you!

Cost: Approx £350/450 EUR + evening meals + flights (Lufthansa fly via Frankfurt, or British Airways or KLM)

Registration: Final call! Accommodation needs to be confirmed by 28 November. Latecomers may be accepted, depending on availability of beds in the youth hostels, and will have to stay at the Wasdale Head Inn for the first two nights http://www.wasdale.com/.

Note: Christine Slater will lead a Lower Lakeland Fells week (mainly B hikes) in June 2017.