Walking the Wainwrights: With Stuart Marshall

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Complete the Wainwright's in 36 Walks Thirty-six circular walks covering all the peaks in Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. Important Note: I provide maps, statistics and route files in .gpx and Google Earth .kmz data forms for each walk in the compilation. Presently the 'Walking the Wainwright's' book is not available. Listed below are two alternative Wainwright's completion books, the first to be done in 45 walks and the second in 64 walks. Anyway before we go and bother 'Brandywell' again can anyone recommend a book that you feel would aid us in our desire for the 214, and also help someone who has over the last 10 years completed fells all over the Lake district (Currently 77 wainwrights) which means messing up routes or doing them again (No bad thing)

I have been drawn to the work of The acclaimed Lake District walker and writer Alfred Wainwright for as long as I have been visiting the Lake District. His 'Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells' are the most famous walking guide books ever written and they were an early reference point for me when planning my first walks in the National Park during the early 1990's. I use the Pictorial Guides to this day, the 50th anniversary edition of the original works. This walk was a bit of a last minute decision. The weather forecast told me that Wednesday would be the last day of the freakish February mini summer we were having, and I really hadn’t made the most of it in terms of getting outside. I booked a couple of days off work and decided to head up to the Lake District for a bit of Wainwright bagging. As I’ve said in my previous Lake District posts, the walks I’m following are from the excellent ‘Walking the Wainwrights’ book by Stuart Marshall. He has devised just 36 walks that cover the whole of the 214 Wainwrights without any having to be repeated. As well as the route information, and some pretty stern advice on footpath etiquette, the book has useful sections on lakeland geology and place-names hat wil surely enrich the reader's experience of the hills. There are moments of humour - fun is poked at all those publications with "a guidebook's soul trapped in a coffee-table book's body" - and the author is not afraid of controversy. He detests unnecessary gadgets, safety mania and overdressing for the fells." -- Peter Malone