LAKE DISTRICT

3 days hiking / 3 nights

Monday 15th – Thursday 18th April, 2024

Thursday 16th – Sunday 19th May, 2024

Private tours available for booking

Difficulty: varies according to your preference form grade 2/3/4 (1 being incredible easy – 5 being very challenging)

Price: £650 per person  – minimum of 4 people (price based on twin rooms, or two in a double)

bellasomerset@gmail.com

Experience the wellbeing of re-connecting to yourself, connecting to a group of people, and connecting with nature in this mini-break to re-set and re-align your mental and physical health. Leave stressors behind and enjoy the best of the English mountains.

Day 1: Arrive Keswick

Station is Penrith. Then bus or taxi to Keswick. Dinner and discuss the route.

Day 2: Keswick to Rosthwaite

Get an early start as we do go up ‘Cat Bells’ in the morning. Footing is a bit of a scramble at times. We eat a packed lunch along the way. And in the afternoon we walk through beautiful woodland then onto expansive grassland. We nestle in for the night at Rosthwaite. 14.5 miles 6-7hrs (elevation gain 2,784ft)

Day 3: Rosthwaite to Buttermere

Ascend up the valley, up ‘Hay Stacks’ which is an old mining cart trail and across to the Lake where Alfred Wainwrights ashes are scattered, before descending down the valley taking in the view of the lakes. A view that is said to be one of the best in the Lake District. 9 miles 6hrs (elevation gain 1,812ft)

Day 4: Buttermere to Keswick

A hike up onto the top of the fells and walking along the top – hitting a peak of 839m. Taking lunch on the fells. 11 miles 5-6hrs (elevation gain 1,734ft) You may want to get an evening train home from Penrith or ask to book another night and return in the morning.

What’s included:

  • Accommodation (3 nights) – additional night £150
  • Breakfasts
  • Baggage transfers
  • Mountain Leader certified guide

What’s not included:

  • Kit
  • Transport to Keswick and transport back home from Keswick
  • Pack lunches
  • Dinners

Kit list

  • Walking boots – with ankle support
  • Walking socks
  • Waterproof – GORTEX – ‘waterproof’ is a deceptive word and English weather is likely to provide rain
  • Waterproof trousers (optional)
  • Warm evening jacket
  • Underwear
  • I liter Water bottle and / or thermos
  • Day backpack – we have baggage transfer of a larger bag/larger backpack
  • Waterproof cover for small bag
  • 2 trekking tops
  • 1 sleeping top
  • Trekking trousers
  • Evening shoes
  • Evening clothes
  • Sleeping leggings/ PJs/ tracksuit
  • Sun cream
  • Swim suit (in the summer)
  • Sun hat
  • Warm fleece
  • Trekking poles (optional)
  • Warm hat
  • Face balaclava