Buttermere and Fleetwith Pike - Olympus 35RC

The English Lake District is the most beautiful natural terrain I know. In 1990 I was fortunate enough to be able to come to live here permanently and walk the Lakeland fells to my heart's content. This site is dedicated to all those who explore the area on foot. Larger version of this picture.

STOP PRESS

22 March 2008 - I've moved the website to a new web server and had to upload the whole site and modify scripts. As far as I know everything is now working properly. If you find anything missing or working wrongly please let me know. I had hoped to resurrect the mailing list but the new hosts have restrictions on outgoing mail so sorry but I'm just not able to do it.

18 March 2008 - I'm in the process of adding new photographs to the site. Details are available here.

7 March 2008 - The GPS route files have been brought up to date. Two data types are available, GPSU format and GPX, serving GPSU and EasyGPS software.

19 February 2008 - I had a good panoramic view of the Lakeland fells across the fog-filled Eden valley from Cross Fell yesterday. There is a new zoom-featured photograph with which one can see the range of fells on detail.

12 February 2008 - I had a good view of the Isle of Man from Great End yesterday. There is a new photograph with zoom features so you can home in on the Isle of Man or even Sellafield if you so wish.

19 January 2008 - I've recently returned from a walking tour in the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia, where the scenery is absolutely stunning. An extended trip report is presented here.

May 2007 - I've recently returned from a walking tour of Sicilian volcanoes, i.e. Etna, Stromboli and Vulcano. Photographs of the trip are accessed here.

On Christmas Day 2006 a temperature inversion resulted in cloud being trapped in the Lakeland valleys up to an elevation of around 2,500 feet. There was glorious sunshine and clear air above this level. I climbed Dove Crag from Brotherswater and continued to Fairfield before descending via Hartsop above How. I've kept these photos together here

• The site contains detailed descriptions of over 40 walks. The outlines of the walks and links to the details can be found on Walks Index page.
• There are well over 300 photographs, almost all of them being directly related to the walks. Links to them appear within the detailed description pages, but for an index of them all see the Photo Index, Highlights, Links and Jottings page. This also contains a summary of highlights of the walks with star ratings for their quality and difficulty, a facility to contact the writer, links to other Lake District web sites, and assorted jottings.
• If you are new to this site, try following one of the walks, downloading the photographs when you reach them in the text. A good example is the walk over Catstye Cam & Helvellyn.
• Some of the best pictures appear in the Lake District Walks Screen Saver which can be downloaded and tested free of charge for seven days.
• You'll find other visitors' comments on the site and on Lakeland in the Visitors' Book.
• The author is not able at present to guide over the fells (pressure of work) but the page on walkers' responsibilities has useful information on equipment, food & drink and suchlike.
• If there are particular locations you are interested in, there is a Site Search Engine which will find all occurrences on the site of your chosen words/names.
• A Walk Distance Calculator and GPS Section provide navigational assistance including grid coordinates for key points on all the Lakeland walks.

The Lake District Walks Web Site is proud to give its visitors the opportunity to purchase books and maps from Amazon.co.uk directly from this site. Their logo links to a page of the writer's recommendations for Lakeland books as well as access to the Amazon website.

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