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Lake District Walks - By John Dawson. Contains detailed descriptions of 42 walks in the Lake District, with over 300 photographs.
Contours Walking Holidays - Guided and self-led walking holidays in Scotland, England and Wales. Includes maps to help choose walks, which also give additional information on the walks, including how strenuous they are.
The Lakeland Way - A stunning 25 mile walk between Borrowdale, Langdale, Wasdale and culminating in the ascent of Scafell, England's highest mountain.
Walking Women - Walking and hiking at all levels in the English Lake District.
Make Tracks For The Countryside - Walks from Cumbria's Coastal Railway. Eight walks of between 3 and 6 miles are described, all of which start at a railway station on the Cumbria Coast railway line.
Ramblers' Association (Lake District Area) - The Ramblers' Association promotes walking in the countryside, protects rights of way, campaigns for access to open country, and defends the beauty of the countryside. Information about the local groups.
Walks in the Lake District - A guide by David Jones to fell walking in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.
Coldkeld Walking Holidays - Guided walking holidays, staying in a 17th century farmhouse, situated at Ravenstonedale in Cumbria, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Walking in Cumbria. - Cumbria County Council Countryside information. List of walks and how to get there by public transport.
Walks Around Cumbria - A description and map of three walks around Cumbria, by Emma Moody, Countryside Information Officer for Cumbria County Council.
Leaney's Lakeland Fells - A listing of the Fell and Rock Climbing Clubs 244 fells and Wainwright's 214 fells with walking log, and lots of photographs. By Andrew Leaney.
Janet and Douglas in The Lake District - Photos during walks in the Lake District by Janet and Douglas Fielder.
Walks around Braithwaite in the Lake District - A short description of walks within 10 miles of Braithwaite, near Keswick, in the northern Lakes, with lots of photographs.
The Lake District Fells - Brief guide to the 214 Lakeland fells which are described in the seven guides written by AW Wainwright. Some photographs, and detailed reports.
Pathfairies - A humourous and serious look at the work of upland pathbuilders in the Lake District.
Doug Dawson's Lakeland Fells - Mountain walking in the English Lake District. Wainwright fells Database, advice for climbers and walkers, and best routes up the best mountains.
Lakeland Walks - Walks in the Lake District with digital photographs, by Les Allen. Descriptions and photos of various walks undertaken by the author.
Lake District Outdoors - Walking - The official website from Cumbria Tourist Board dedicated to people who enjoy walking in Cumbria. Features over 30 routes.
Wainwright's Lakeland Fells - A photographic guide to the many walks in the Lake District described by AW Wainwright in his seven books 'A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'. By Ann Bowker.
Walks in The Lake District - A variety of walks both easy and difficult within Cumbria. Details and photographs. Includes a comprehensive list of accommodation, and places to eat.
Cumbria Walks - A selection of scenic walks around Carlisle, North Cumbria. Descriptions with photos, and guide to wildlife that may be seen.
Walkers' Bags - Offers a baggage transfer service between youth hostels, bed & breakfast establishments, guest houses and hotels for walkers along the Hadrian's Wall National Trail route.
Lakeland Experience - Guided Walks - Qualified walking guides offer guided walks throughout the Lake District. Details and photos.
Striding Edge - A Photo Guide to The Lake District Fells - A photo diary of the Wainwright Lake District Fells and the Bill Birkett Lake District Fells, with fell details and GPS co-ordinates.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Walking Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Walking If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Walking My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Walking The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Walking The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Walking The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Walking "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Walking "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Walking "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Walking There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Walking "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Walking The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Walking Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Walking Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Walking I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Walking "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Walking "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Walking The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha My other wife is beautiful. Walking "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Walking I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Walking
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