Description
LAKE DISTRICT
3 days walking / 3 nights
Dates:
Private tours available for booking
£650 per person (minimum 4 people) private room occupancy – additional 30%
For large group bookings – inquire about prices – bellasomerset@gmail.com
Day 1: Arrive Keswick
Station is Penrith. Then bus or taxi to The Royal Oak, 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. Lunch along the way. And in the afternoon we walk through beautiful woodland then onto expansive grassland. We nestle in for the night at lovely hotel in Rosthwaite. We stay in 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. We 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 in Keswick and return in the morning.
What’s included:
- Accommodation (3 nights) – additional night £150
- Breakfasts
- Baggage transfers
- Mountain Leader as your 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 puffa jacket – for when you arrive at the hotel
- Underwear
- Water bottle – and Thermos for the cold days
- 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
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