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August 2, 2024
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BMC planned a hike
August 1, 2024
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Dan Hobson, Rob Marshall and Abi like this.
October 13, 2023
Tryfan’s North Ridge is perhaps Britain’s ultimate grade one scramble. Nothing quite matches the thrill of approaching its magnificent shark’s fin form and picking your way through its labyrinth of beautiful, jumbled rock to the iconic Adam and Eve summit. Once done, Glyder Fach’s Bristly Ridge awaits
BMC planned a hike
January 17, 2024
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January 24, 2024
The perfect mountain in miniature, Catbells is adored by many. Its camel hump summit hogs the limelight in views across Derwentwater, despite being more diminutive than its neighbours, at just 1,480 feet (451 m). If you were to design a fell to be the ideal introduction to hillwalking, it would look
BMC planned a hike
January 17, 2024
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Andrew Marsh and Mihir like this.
January 25, 2024
Rising above all else in Lakeland’s serene Far Eastern Fells, High Street is a mountain with a rich history. It’s named for the Roman road that runs along its broad main ridge, connecting the Roman forts of Brocavum (near Penrith) and Galava (Ambleside). The fell is also known as Racecourse Hill, as
BMC planned a hike
January 17, 2024
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January 24, 2024
Few can claim to know Cumbria’s high places as well as Alfred Wainwright did. The great hillwalker’s Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells changed the fabric of the Lake District forever. Of all the myriad routes up the 214 hills and mountains featured in his masterpieces, it was Blencathra via Halls
BMC planned a hike
January 17, 2024
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January 25, 2024
England’s highest mountain is the crowning glory of the Scafells, a range of rugged peaks thrust high above a complex tangle of glacier-carved volcanic terrain. The upper ramparts are true mountain country, with impressively towering crags, boulder-strewn crests and a sense of desolation at odds with
BMC planned a hike
January 17, 2024
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January 24, 2024
There will always be debate around which is Lakeland’s finest mountain. Great Gable, its impressive form unmistakable from so many summit vantage points, is almost always considered in such a discussion. While Helvellyn and Blencathra flaunt the best walker’s ridges and the Scafell massif boasts the
BMC planned a hike
November 21, 2023
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Rob Marshall and Grace like this.
December 6, 2023
The watery, knuckled and rugged terrain of the northern Moelwynion is the setting for this hike. Wild swimmers will be spoilt for choice, with several gorgeous mountain llyns to choose from. The almost circular Llyn Llagi nestles in a cwm beneath the ‘Welsh Matterhorn’ of Cnicht; Llyn yr Adar and its
BMC planned a hike
November 21, 2023
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Rob Marshall and Helen like this.
December 4, 2023
This isn’t so much a wild swim walk as a magnificent hike that can act as a precursor to a wild swim in the River Etive’s Triple Falls. This series of cascades is handily located just off the Glen Etive road that winds down from the western end of Rannoch Moor. A system of tiered waterfalls, dark pools
BMC planned a hike
November 21, 2023
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Rob Marshall and Lydia-May like this.
December 4, 2023
This adventure to England’s two highest summits explores the breathlessly remote-feeling Upper Eskdale. It’s one of the few places in the Lake District that retains a sense of wilderness. The scenery is jaw-dropping and, in Tongue Pot, you’ve got yourself a wild swimming spot that’s the stuff of dreams
BMC planned a hike
November 21, 2023
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Rob Marshall likes this.
December 4, 2023
Eryri (Snowdonia) has some wonderfully named beauty spots. Peak of the Slippery Witch anyone?
Nested beneath Bwlch Cwm Brwynog, just off the Snowdon Ranger Path, is another. Llyn Ffynnon y Gwas, the Lake of the Servant's Spring, is a gorgeous wild swim spot in an impressive mountain setting.
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BMC planned a hike
November 21, 2023
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December 6, 2023
The Isle of Skye is blessed with more than its fair share of fantastical landscapes. From the Trotternish Ridge’s weird rock formations to the jagged peaks of Black Cuillin, it doesn’t take much imagination to feel like you’re on another world entirely. Cascading down from the Cuillin’s spectacular northern
BMC planned a mountaineering activity
November 7, 2023
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Rob Marshall likes this.
November 24, 2023
Perhaps the most coveted grade three scramble in the Lake District, St Sunday Crag’s Pinnacle Ridge is legendary. Some even go as far as to say it is the best scramble in the national park. Enjoying a hugely atmospheric setting, high up on a giant of the Eastern Fells, it provides wonderful views towards
BMC planned a mountaineering activity
November 7, 2023
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Rob Marshall likes this.
November 24, 2023
Great Gable is often cited as the birthplace of British rock climbing. In 1886, Walter Parry Haskett Smith free soloed the iconic Napes Needle on the mountain’s south face and the pursuit was born. In the decades that followed, Wasdale became the epicentre of English climbing, with many routes pioneered
BMC planned a mountaineering activity
November 7, 2023
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Rob Marshall, Steve P and Karl like this.
November 12, 2023
A soaring mountain range of black gabbro and basalt rises straight from the sea in the heart of the wildy romantic and darkly atmospheric Isle of Skye. The guts of an ancient volcano, its jagged, rocky peaks are like nothing on the British mainland. While it may be the UK’s youngest mountain group (around
October 30, 2023
Few mountain profiles in the UK are as instantly recognisable or as arresting as the Langdale Pikes when viewed from the south east. It doesn’t matter whether you’re glancing towards Lakeland from the M6, admiring them from the traffic jams that often form on the approach to Ambleside from Kendal, or