Walking the Cumbria Way

A guidebook to walking the Cumbria Way, a 188km (73 mile) route between Ulverston and Carlisle. Suitable for walkers with some experience this long-distance route through the heart of the Lake District can be walked in 5 days, but there is plenty of opportunity to plan your itinerary for a more easy-going 7 to 8 days.

• Presented in 5 stages of 19-26km (12-16 miles)
• The route is largely low-level, but this book also describes alternative mountain days which add the Coniston Fells, Glaramara and Skiddaw en route
• Key centres along the trail include Torver, Coniston, Elterwater, Great Langdale, Rosthwaite, Keswick, Bassenthwaite, Caldbeck, Dalston
• 1:50,000 OS maps included for each walk
• GPX files available to download
• Route is described from south to north
• Detailed information on accommodation, facilities and public transport along the route

Autorentext
John Gillham was born in Bournemouth, Dorset but now lives with his wife Nicola in Hoddlesden, a small village in the West Pennine Moors. John has been a full-time professional writer, illustrator and photographer since 1989. His first book, Snowdonia to the Gower: a Coast-to-Coast Walk Across Highest Wales , has been described as one of the classic books on Wales. He also pioneered three other long-distance routes: Lakeland to Lindisfarne, Pennine Ways (an alternative Pennine Way) and the Bowland and amp;ndash;Dales Traverse, all of which were published in book form. John and amp;rsquo;s recent books include The Pictorial Guides to the Mountains of Snowdonia Volumes 1 and amp;ndash;4 , Best Day Walks in Snowdonia and the AA Leisure Guide to Wales . John writes regularly for The Great Outdoors (TGO) and has written occasionally for Dalesman , Cumbria Magazine , Trail and Country Walking . He has written and contributed to many AA publications. He has twice won Outdoor Writers and amp;amp; Photographers Guild Award for Excellence, firstly for his guidebook Best Day Walks in Snowdonia and secondly for the outdoor book Coast-to-Coasting (with Ronald Turnbull).

Klappentext

A guidebook to the 73 mile Cumbria Way, an easy long-distance walk though the heart of the Lake District National Park, from Ulverston in the south to Carlisle in the north, with good transport links to either end. The route is largely low-level but this guide offers alternative mountain days to climb some of the famous fells en route.