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ForssAwakens

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What are the easiest and hardest walks (wainwrights) there?

Did the coledale round yesterday and that was a tough walk in the low cloud wind
 
I'd recommend Striding Edge to Hellvellyn ... is it ?? There are some easier routes around it as perilous as it looks .. though if you try the scramble/hardest routes it's a bit of a toughy ..

First time I done Striding I nearly fell to me death were it not for my brother catching me by the straps of my backpack ha ha. Slipped off middle of a rock I'd pulled myself up on, slipped on some moss I'd have went rolling down a straight drop God knows how many feet. Luckily the straps held onto my weight and I pulled myself back onto the ridge

Sometime I wish he never caught me and I perished ... could be worse places to expire. And I would not have had to put up with the agony of following MFC still to this day.

Kidding, of course

There are loads of sites suggesting great routes with mapping and all that, have you ever looked at the Walking Englishman's stuff?? We always looked at his suggestions for everywhere we've been around the country, all the main mountains and stuff and great walks galore

I was only saying the other day I love a good hike out in the sticks. Been a while. Hire a small room for the night or two down the lakes, or find an old bothy. Can't beat it to blow off the cobwebs as they say.
 
Littlejimmy said:
Latrigg is quite an easy one (a bit steep to start with) and has a cracking view.
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That was the first one we did. Great views over Keswick

Do walls crag and bleaberry in the summer. Clear day and I thought the views from bleaberry were stunning as you got to see a few range of mountains up there
 
Old Man of Conoston is a decent trek with a bit of a scramble near the top.
Couldn't stop laughing on the way down. There were a family in front of us. Heard the young lad say I need a wee, followed by tears and his mam saying don't worry there are spare shorts in the car. Clearly his dad hadn't got round to explaining the importance of wind direction while peeing on the fells.
 
Tryasize10 said:
I thought sharp edge on Blencathra was worse than Striding Edge.

Scafell from the campsite at seathwaite was a bit of a slog
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yeah, I agree as I felt the same too the time we were on it. We always tended to try the hardest scrambles or climbs too which didn't make it any easier, one of my fellow mountaineering friends loved climbing and I have a truly awful fear of heights. It's no wonder I got a bit wobbly from time to time on clear days like when I nearly had the accident I referred to earlier on Striding Edge haha

rather than take the safer paths around whatever part or peak we were at, Danny my friend always chose the trickiest ones

One time, we went down to Wales to the beautiful Snowdonia area .. we decided to climb Snowdon for Zoe's Place. I remember this one well for some reason, the night before the Raoul Moat siege come to an end and I stupidly stayed up watching it into the wee hours

Was knackered on the way down. I also lost my hiking boots, me being daft as I am, thought we were just going up the regular tourist route to the top so just shot old trainers on .. halfway through Danny once again, decided if we climbed it from a point on the map he had seen, we would cut the time in half and get back down in time for more rest before we went out around the town at night.

We got caught in a huge monsoon, man... I have never seen so much rain in my life. No visibility at all and we're climbing, and I am wearing a tatty pair of Nike Cortez. There were even climbers going past me scoffing at the fact I had such stupid footwear on as water just gushed out of them as the rain battered down in what felt like a waterfall, as I perched on this ledge like Golem quivering and done.

Haha. I was vomiting through exhaustion, it was that intense. I still can't believe I managed to do it, especially after the clouds cleared and it felt like I was just suspended thousands of miles up in the sky with no way down or up .. I froze, didn't want to move an inch as I thought that was it. I was going to die. haha!

At least I survived yet again and we raised a good chunk of coin for a great cause. That's the main thing. Just some daft stories from my times dabbling in a bit of climbing and enjoying the beauty of our country.
 
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Cosmonaut said:
yeah, I agree as I felt the same too the time we were on it. We always tended to try the hardest scrambles or climbs too which didn't make it any easier, one of my fellow mountaineering friends loved climbing and I have a truly awful fear of heights. It's no wonder I got a bit wobbly from time to time on clear days like when I nearly had the accident I referred to earlier on Striding Edge haha

rather than take the safer paths around whatever part or peak we were at, Danny my friend always chose the trickiest ones

One time, we went down to Wales to the beautiful Snowdonia area .. we decided to climb Snowdon for Zoe's Place. I remember this one well for some reason, the night before the Raoul Moat siege come to an end and I stupidly stayed up watching it into the wee hours

Was knackered on the way down. I also lost my hiking boots, me being daft as I am, thought we were just going up the regular tourist route to the top so just shot old trainers on .. halfway through Danny once again, decided if we climbed it from a point on the map he had seen, we would cut the time in half and get back down in time for more rest before we went out around the town at night.

We got caught in a huge monsoon, man... I have never seen so much rain in my life. No visibility at all and we're climbing, and I am wearing a tatty pair of Nike Cortez. There were even climbers going past me scoffing at the fact I had such stupid footwear on as water just gushed out of them as the rain battered down in what felt like a waterfall, as I perched on this ledge like Golem quivering and done.

Haha. I was vomiting through exhaustion, it was that intense. I still can't believe I managed to do it, especially after the clouds cleared and it felt like I was just suspended thousands of miles up in the sky with no way down or up .. I froze, didn't want to move an inch as I thought that was it. I was going to die. haha!

At least I survived yet again and we raised a good chunk of coin for a great cause. That's the main thing. Just some daft stories from my times dabbling in a bit of climbing and enjoying the beauty of our country.
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You do have some cracking stories. I don’t think I could do the edges, scared of heights myself so reckon I’d brick it
 
Another shout for Sharp Edge being worse than Striding Edge.

Walked Blencathra via Sharp Edge with a mate who was about 5-10 steps ahead of me. I got stuck a few times and just could not picture how I was going to get from where I was to where my mate was, only 5/10 yards away. These were on the ‘flat’ sections too! The scrambles were great fun.

Reaching the top of Striding Edge/Helvellyn felt far more worthwhile/satisfying than reaching the top of Sharp Edge/Blencathra
 
Having done Helvellyn a few times, always found swirral edge worse than striding. Remember coming down very cautiously practically on our ar$es all the way. We were easily overtaken by a group of pensioners who were practically just skipping down it 😆

Not as picturesque/spectacular though.
 
Tryasize10 said:
I thought sharp edge on Blencathra was worse than Striding Edge.

Scafell from the campsite at seathwaite was a bit of a slog
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I'm the same as you, Sharp Edge is more of a bum twitcher than Striding Edge. Mind you, it's nothing compared to An Teallach in Scotland, not sure if I'd have the bottle to try it nowadays.
 
I don't mind a walk but I don't understand why anyone would risk their lives doing a dangerous walk. It just can't be worth it.

There are seemingly dangerous things that are worth it that aren't really dangerous like skydiving or bungee jumping. Those things are only really dangerous when there is a major disaster like equipment failure. Those climbs though can end in disaster with just a slip and slips aren't uncommon, even on flat ground. Just seems much more likely something terrible can happen.
 
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