Lakeland 3000
All four 3000ft peaks in the Lake District
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Update Update
We completed the walk at 3:24 on Saturday 13th June 2009. see Lakeland 3000 for details
The Idea
The idea is to set a challenge for yourself, one that is not totally unrealistic but one that you know will stretch your endurance and determination beyond a point where you have been before and a bit more.
Why?
Why not? Well actually for many reasons:
- To have a focus and reason for getting and staying fit.
- To be sociable.
- To have something to do with spare time, other than work.
The Detail
The actual challenge is to walk the four 3000ft tops in the Lake District in one day starting at and returning to The Moot Hall in Keswick, all within 24 hours and unaided.
That's an approximate total of 46 Miles, 11,000ft of ascent.
- Keswick Moot Hall 06:00 Friday
- Skiddaw Summit
- Keswick
- Borrowdale
- Seathwaite
- Lingmell Col
- Scafell Pike
- Scafell
- Scafell Pike
- Broad Crag
- Esk Hause
- Angle Tarn
- Stake Pass
- High Raise
- Steel End
- Wythburn
- Helvellyn
- Thirlmere
- Keswick Moot Hall 06:00 Saturday
Labels: challenges, Helvellyn, L3K, Lake District, lakeland 3000, lakes 3000, Scafell Pike, Skiddaw
4 Comments:
Bloody nora Robert, make sure you take some mint cake...
Preferred Hill Food: carbs complex and simple sugars, fat, protein and salts in a kind of tasty mix e.g.
Cheese and marmalade sandwiches
Peanut butter and cheese sandwiches
Jordan's cereal bars or the ones from the Co-Op (they have chocolate on them too)
Oranges
Busy now trying to work out how much we'll need for the 24hrs.
And a few cans of beer for the way back down?
Good luck! I envy you the achievement if not the endeavour.
Much that I like a beer, see Skiddaw : Hey there is a view, I can't see the weight being a positive asset. Hopefully someone will have some ready at Keswick when we finish. Working on actual schedule this evening.. 2:00 am start? or later, there is some debate. Which in turn will decide whether the pubs will be open at that time. Somehow even with all day opening I doubt they will be.
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