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Lake District Winter Climbs Brian Davison

Lake District Winter Climbs By Brian Davison

Lake District Winter Climbs by Brian Davison


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An essential guidebook to the best winter climbing routes in the Lake District. Nearly 1000 winter climbs in every part of the Lakes is described. From classic high-mountain gullies and buttresses on crags such as Scafell, Pillar and Great Gable to frozen watercourses and icefalls including Great Gully on the Wasdale screes.

Lake District Winter Climbs Summary

Lake District Winter Climbs: Snow, ice and mixed climbs in the English Lake District by Brian Davison

This winter climbing guide in the Lake District is a joint production by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club and Cicerone Press. It is the definitive guide to winter climbing in the Lake District and presents the climbs and crags in a fresh new format. Every known winter climb from every part of the Lake District is described - nearly 1000 routes in all. These range from classic high-mountain gullies and buttresses on crags such as Scafell, Pillar, and Great Gable to frozen watercourses and icefalls including Great Gully on the Wasdale Screes, Launchy Gill, Low Water Beck and Cautley Spout. And, of course, popular venues like Great End and the Eastern Coves of the Helvellyn Escarpment are described in detail. Included too are several routes in outlying Cumbria. There are also sections on winter equipment, winter climbing and conservation, climbing walls, accommodation, and a first ascent list that includes masses of interesting historical research. All ruggedly bound in a handy pocket-sized format. This edition has fully revised and updated maps to help you find the crags and detailed colour photo-topos to help you identify the routes.

Lake District Winter Climbs Reviews

'Helicopter-borne FRCC crag paparazzi and Cicerone join forces to produce a gorgeous-looking compendium of Lakeland Winter esoterica. So who cares if it hardly ever snows? It makes Cumbria look like Canada; something to drool over by a log fire with tumbler of whisky and dream of perfect Lakeland neve.' (Climb Magazine / February 07) 'First impressions are that the guide is robust and follows the familiar easy-to-use FRCC format. And as soon as I opened the guide and started thumbing through its pages I felt excited by the superb pictures of a climbing area that is all too easily dismissed in the winter by climbers heading for more reliable Scottish terrain. Unusually, for a British winter guidebook, crag diagrams are replaced by colour phototopos, a luxury that has paid off, showing clear lines that are easy to follow on the page. Very few guidebooks really suck me in, this Lakeland winter guide can now be added to this special category. I know reviews are meant to highlight the good and the bad, but I cannot see anything but good in this guide. I truly love it' (Climb magazine / March 07) 'The Lake District isn't the first place Irish climbers would think of for winter climbs. But this guidebook with nearly 1000 routes, very many of them modern, show that global warning hasn't had a serious affect on the Lakeland winter. The guide covers a wide variety of climbs, with routes in nearly every corner of Lakeland, and a few in the Howgill Fells. The diagrams are excellent, and the photographs are equally good. It is altogether a really lovely book, good to handle in solid plastic binding, and if like me, you know the Lake District, a good read. A worthy publication for the FRCC centenary' (Irish Mountain Log / Spring 2007) Check out the various website reviews by following the links below: Ukclimbing.com Mountaindays.net

About Brian Davison

The Fell and Rock Climbing club was founded in 1906-07, and membership has grown to about 1100 members worldwide who found their mountaineering origins in the Lakes. The aims of the club are to encourage rock climbing and fell walking in the English Lake District and to act as a bond of union for its members. The club publishes a number of guides to climbing in the area, as well as a bi-annual supplement to new routes. This guide is an exciting new project by author Brian Davison, editor Stephen Reid and Cicerone Press.

Table of Contents

Map Key Foreword Introduction Conditions Choice of Venue Equipment Notes Winter Grades Descriptions Historical Warning Acknowledgements Winter Climbing and Nature Conservation Langdale Blake Rigg Oxendale Great Knott Gladstone Knott Crinkle Gill Shelter Crags Bowfell Neckband Crag Bowfell Links Traverse Crag Flat Crags Cambridge Crag North Buttress Bowfell Buttress Angle Tarn and Hanging Knotts Langdale Pikes Pike of Stickle Gimmer Crag Harrison Stickle Dungeon Ghyll Stickle Ghyll Pavey Ark White Ghyll Coniston Dow Brown Pike Dow Crag The Old Man of Coniston Low Water Low Water Crag Levers Water Grey Crag Raven Tor Wetherlam Steel Edge South Hen Crag Hen Crag Tilberthwaite and the Slate Quarries Tilberthwaite Gill Hodge Close Quarry Parrock Quarry Tranearth Quarry Carrs Eskdale Stanley Force Birker Force Harter Fell Gill Scale Force Cam Spout Crag Little Narrow Cove Chambers Crag Ill Crag Wasdale Wasdale Screes Low Adam Crag Scafell Massif Black Crag Scafell Scafell Crag Scafell Shamrock Scafell East Buttress Scafell Pike Pikes Crag Dropping Crag Broad Crag Lingmell Piers Gill Straight Gill Middleboot Gill Greta Gill Grainy Gill Mosedale Western Wasdale Overbeck Ennerdale Mirklin Cove Haskett Buttress Steeple West Buttress Mirk Cove and Wind Gap Cove Steeple East Buttress Scoat Fell Crag Black Crag Pillar West Cove Pillar Rock Pillar Cove Hind Cove Great Gable and Kirk Fell Gable South Kern Knotts The Napes Westmorland Crags Gable North Gable Crag Green Gable Crag Kirk Fell Ill Gill Boat Howe Black Sail Buttress Buttermere Honister Pass Yew Crags Buckstone How Quarry Fall Fleetwith Pike - North Face Honister Crag Icefalls Warnscale Bottom Fleetwith Gully Green Crag Gully Toreador Gully Haystacks Birkness Combe Brant Bield Crags Eagle Crag Grey Crag Bleaberry Combe Chapel Crags Scale Force Grasmoor Dove Crag Lorton Gully Buttermere Gully Goat Gill Newlands Newlands Hause Waterfall Coledale Force Crag Eel Crag Scott Crag Whinlatter Hobcarton Crag Borrowdale Borrowdale East Walla Crag Gully Ashness Gill Shepherd's Crag Black Crag Little Stanger Gill Sergeant Crag Gully Raven Crag Combe Head Columba's Gully Hind Gill Great End Area Skew Gill Spout Head Great End Borrowdale West Taylor Gill Force Base Brown Sourmilk Gill Gillercombe Crag Scaleclose Gill High Scawdell Gill Rigghead Quarry Goat Crag Icefall Blea Crag Northern Fells Skiddaw Whitewater Dash Waterfall Dead Crag Lonscale Crags Blencathra (Saddleback) Hallsfell Ridge Sharp Edge Foule Crag Carrock Fell Thirlmere Bramcrag Quarry Fall Sandbed Gill Sandbed Gill Crag Beckthorns Gill Mill Gill Fisherplace Gill Birkside Gill Dob Gill Launchy Gill Shoulthwaite Gill Helvellyn Massif Helvellyn Brown Cove Crags Brown Cove Red Tarn Cove Nethermost Cove Lad Crag Swallow Scarth Nethermost Pike North-East Face Ruthwaite Cove Nethermost Pike South Face High Crag Dollywaggon North Crag Cock Cove Dollywaggon South Crag Cock Cove Crag Dollywaggon Tarn Crag and Falcon Crag Patterdale and Adjacent Valleys Patterdale - East Swarthbeck Gill Buck Crag Rampsgill Head Crag Threshthwaite Cove Patterdale - West Aira Force Grisedale St Sunday Crag Deepdale Link Cove Gill Link Cove Hart Crag Scrubby Crag Sleet Cove Greenhow End Hutaple Crag Black Buttress Dovedale Black Crag Dove Crag Heirloom Crag Kirkstone Pass Red Screes East Cove Kirkstone Crag Red Screes North Cove Far Eastern Fells Mardale Harter Fell Crag Blea Water Blea Water Crag Riggindale Twopenny Crag Whelter Bottom Whelter Crag Bason Crag Swindale Hobgrumble Gill Longsleddale Galeforth Gill Fall Buckbarrow Crag Goat Scar Kentmere Rainsborrow Crag Outlying Areas The Howgills Cautley Spout Black Force Jeffrey's Mount Escarpment Northern Pennines Ais Gill Hell Gill Hope Head Icefall High Cup Nick Other Information Useful Contacts Accommodation: Campsites and Camping Barns Climbing Walls Lake District Winter Climbs - First Ascents Mountain Accidents Index Index of Diagrams and Maps Publication Information

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GOR006333585
9781852844844
1852844841
Lake District Winter Climbs: Snow, ice and mixed climbs in the English Lake District by Brian Davison
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cicerone Press
20061207
464
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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