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Lake District walks by effort and navigation

Updated 19 October 2026

Before you go

One difficulty word cannot tell a long, steep walk on a path you could follow in the dark from a short one across ground with nothing to steer by. Every route page already grades the two separately, and this page puts all 227 of our walks side by side: how hard they are to walk, against how hard they are to follow.

Both are in bands, Easy, Moderate, Hard and Severe, never a score. Effort is the harder of a walk’s two measured grades, length and steepness. Navigation is how easily you could go wrong, above all in cloud, as the route page grades it. How we reach every grade is on how we grade and time our routes.

What the grid shows

On 24 October 2026, 14 of our 227 walks were Easy or Moderate on effort but Hard or Severe on navigation. All 14 are desk estimates from the map; none was set on the ground and none is our judgement.

Now look only at the 53 walks whose navigation grade Lee set on the ground. On none of them is navigation graded harder than effort. Every one of the 17 he graded Hard or Severe for navigation is also Hard or Severe for effort, and 6 are the other way round: Hard or Severe to walk, Easy to follow.

So the walks that look gentle but are hard to follow are, so far, a finding of the map and not of the ground. We do not lean on it, for two reasons.

First, the map rule counts featureless high ground and the path junctions beside the line, and “high” means high for that walk: the top of its own height range, which on a low walk can be the crown of a small hill. It does not weigh how high that ground is, or how far from help, and losing the path at 200 m is easier to put right than at 800 m.

Second, the rule never gives Easy: of the 27 Easy navigation grades, 17 were set on the ground, 9 are our judgement and one is from the desk. A gentle walk graded from the map starts at Moderate.

The 53 walks graded on the ground are the ones Lee chose to walk, not a random sample, so they cannot tell you what the other 174 hold. The grid will change as more of them are walked.

All 227 walks in sixteen squares

Effort down the side, navigation across the top. Each square says how many walks sit in it and how many of their navigation grades were set on the ground; tap a square for the walks.

Outlined: the four squares where effort is Easy or Moderate and navigation Hard or Severe, the 14 walks above. Effort: the harder of length and steepness, both measured from the recorded track. Navigation: as each route page prints it. Read from the route records on 24 October 2026.

What the navigation grade measures

Our grading rules define it as “how easily you can go wrong, esp. in cloud”. It is one of five grades on every route page, with length, steepness, terrain and exposure, and it cannot be read off the track: a track can tell you how far and how steep, not how easy the way is to find. A grade set on the ground or our judgement from the map is Lee’s; most desk estimates are not a judgement at all but the output of a fixed map rule, set out below, and none of them has been checked on the ground.

Each navigation grade is set one of three ways, and each route page says which:

• Set on the ground (53 walks): Lee walked the line and graded it from what he found. The route page says “graded by Lee on the ground”, and on a walk he walked in part, that it covers the stretches he walked.
• Our judgement (54 walks): Lee’s grade from the map and the route’s record, on a walk, or a stretch of one, he has not walked for this guide. The route page says “our judgement from the map and the route’s record; not walked yet” (or “that stretch not walked”).
• Desk estimate (120 walks): from the map and OpenStreetMap. The route page says “estimated from the map, not checked on the ground”. 113 of them come from a map rule; the other 7 were graded by hand from the map and the route’s own notes. The rule starts at Moderate. It goes to Hard where more than 15% of the line is featureless high ground, where ten or more paths branch off it, or where more than 40% of it has no mapped path, and to Severe where featureless high ground is more than 40% of the line. “Featureless high ground” is ground gentler than 8% in the top 30% of that walk’s own height range.

Unlike exposure, navigation is never shown as “Not assessed” on a route page, so every walk has a navigation band here. These are our own grades: nobody outside hikes.guide has checked them.

What an easy grade does not tell you

A grade describes the line on a fair day in summer. A low navigation grade never means “safe”, and a high one is not a reason to stay at home: it means the way is harder to find when you cannot see far. Cloud can come down on any walk here, snow can hide a clear path, and a path can split where you did not expect it. A phone app is not enough on its own.

• Navigating in cloud: which summits are easiest to get lost on, all 214 Wainwrights.
• Navigation: map, compass and the drills to practise.
• Bad weather hiking: when to go, when to turn round.
• What to carry: the map and compass, and the rest.

Every walk in each square

Each walk links to its route page, which gives the note behind every grade. After each name: how its navigation grade was set, in the route page’s own terms, then its length and steepness bands.

Effort Easy: 28 walks

Effort Easy, navigation Easy: 9 walks

• Ambleside over Miller Bridge · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness easy
• Ambleside to Rydal, with Refreshments and Stepping Stones · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness easy
• Ambleside to Wray Castle · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness easy
• Blea Tarn (Little Langdale) · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness easy
• Latrigg · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness easy
• Elterwater riverside loop · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• The Royal Oak Pub Walk (Ambleside) · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• The Sun Pub Walk (Coniston) · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Castlerigg Stone Circle (from Keswick) · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy

Effort Easy, navigation Moderate: 19 walks

• Grange-over-Sands to Hampsfell · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Scout Scar from Kendal · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Whinlatter Forest: Tarbarrel Moss, Ullister Hill & Seat How · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Along Windermere's Western Shore · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Buttermere lake circuit · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Elterwater & Skelwith Force · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Friar's Crag & the Derwentwater shore · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Grasmere lake circuit · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Humphrey Head from Kents Bank station · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Kentmere to Hartrigg · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Loweswater circuit · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Orrest Head · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Patterdale to Silver Point and Back · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Slater Bridge & Cathedral Cave · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Stock Ghyll Force · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• Tarn Hows circuit · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• The Bowder Stone · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• The Old Dungeon Ghyll Pub Walk (Great Langdale) · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy
• West Side of Coniston · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness easy

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Effort Moderate: 40 walks

Effort Moderate, navigation Easy: 9 walks

• Binsey Walk · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness moderate
• Great Mell Fell · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness moderate
• Hallin Fell · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness moderate
• High Rigg · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness moderate
• Holme Fell and Black Fell · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Keswick to Threlkeld Railway Trail, with a Pub · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness easy
• Crummock Water shore circuit · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Windermere Station to Brockhole and Back · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Wray Castle & the Windermere west shore · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness easy

Effort Moderate, navigation Moderate: 17 walks

• Grasmere to Easdale Tarn · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Grike, Crag Fell and Lank Rigg · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Brant Fell from Bowness · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Castle Crag from Rosthwaite · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Dodd from Dodd Wood · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Hawkshead into the woods · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Lingmoor Fell from Elterwater · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Round Ennerdale Water from Bowness Knott · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Whitbarrow Scar and Lord's Seat from Witherslack · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Eycott Hills · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Green Crag & Great Whinscale — the wild Birker Fell round · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Heughscar Hill & Arthur's Pike · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Lanty's Tarn and Glenridding Beck · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Loughrigg Terrace & Rydal Water · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Low Light Haw · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Rydal Water & Rydal Caves · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Wastwater Shore (the Screes view) · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness easy

Effort Moderate, navigation Hard: 13 walks

• Awkward Around Swinside Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Bampton Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Birketts Around Devoke Water · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Birketts by Kirkland · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Birketts South of Burnbanks · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Brown Rigg & Blea Tarn · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Carron Crag from Grizedale · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate
• Gummer's How · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Howtown to Patterdale along Ullswater · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Knipe Scar - Birkett · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Patterdale to Hartsop and Brothers Water · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness easy
• Pinnacle Howe and Four Stones Hill · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness moderate
• Top o' Selside · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate

Effort Moderate, navigation Severe: 1 walk

• Ulthwaite Rigg · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness moderate

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Effort Hard: 74 walks

Effort Hard, navigation Easy: 9 walks

• Catbells: the short way up · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness hard
• Ling Fell & Sale Fell · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness hard
• North of Skiddaw · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness hard
• Stone Arthur from Grasmere · navigation set on the ground · length easy, steepness hard
• Wansfell Pike and Baystones · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness hard
• Watendlath & the packhorse bridge · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness hard
• Ambleside, Todd Crag, Rydal Cave · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Ashness Bridge & Surprise View · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Raven Crag from Thirlmere · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness hard

Effort Hard, navigation Moderate: 32 walks

• Blencathra to Mungrisdale Common and over the back · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Brock Crags, Angletarn Pikes, Beda Fell & Place Fell · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Castle Crag, Brund Fell & Great Crag · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Catbells, Maiden Moor & High Spy · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness hard
• Gowbarrow Fell and Little Mell Fell · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness moderate
• Helm Crag & Far Easedale · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Lonscale Fell, Skiddaw Lesser Man, Skiddaw and Bakestall in the sun! · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Walla Crag, Bleaberry Fell, High Seat, High Tove and Armboth Fell · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• West of Grasmere · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness moderate
• Ard Crags & Knott Rigg · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Coomb Height, Knott and Great Calva · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Esk Pike and Great End · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Maiden Moor and High Spy · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Red Pike by Scale Force · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• The full circuit of Derwentwater from Keswick · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness easy
• Up to Skiddaw Round Trip · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Walla Crag and Bleaberry Fell from Keswick · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Aira Force & Gowbarrow Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Birketts around Grisedale Pike · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Birketts by Dunnerdale Fells · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Birketts North of Thirlmere · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Black Combe from Silecroft station · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Black Combe from Whicham · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Brunt Knott from Staveley · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Dale Head Hindscarth and Robinson · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• High Snockrigg from Buttermere · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Place Fell and The Knight · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Rivings and Lothwaite · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Rossett Pike, Allen Crags, Great End and more · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Scafell Pike via the Corridor Route · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Silver How from Grasmere · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Swineside Knott & Gowbarrow · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard

Effort Hard, navigation Hard: 32 walks

• Coledale Round · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Glenridding Dodd, Sheffield Pike, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness hard
• Mardale Ill Bell, High Street, The Knott, Rampsgill Head, High Raise and Kidsty Pike · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness hard
• Skiddaw via Ullock Pike and Dodd · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness hard
• Blencathra via Blease Fell · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Standing Crag, High Tove, Armboth · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness moderate
• A quiet Birkett · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Around Sele Bottom · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness moderate
• Birketts above Ullswater · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness moderate
• Birketts by Carrock Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Birketts by Gowbarrow · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Birketts by Kentmere Horseshoe · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness moderate
• Birketts by Loweswater · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Birketts North of Loweswater · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Birketts to the South of Ullswater · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Black Sails & Great How · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Black Star Brandreth and others · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Blake Fell, Gavel Fell, Hen Comb · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Capple Howe & Sallows · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Castle How & Lang How - Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Dow Crag without the Old Man · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Dunnerdale Fells · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Fairfield Horseshoe · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• Haystacks · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Knott Rigg & Ard Crags Out-and-Back from Newlands Pass · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Little Dale Horseshoe · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Mardale Horseshoe · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard
• North of Coniston Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Pooley Bridge to Shap · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness easy
• The Tilberthwaite Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness hard
• Two Birketts from Mardale Head · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness hard
• Ulpha Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness hard

Effort Hard, navigation Severe: 1 walk

• Helvellyn via Striding Edge & Swirral Edge · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness hard

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Effort Severe: 85 walks

Effort Severe, navigation Moderate: 37 walks

• Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, Thornthwaite Crag and Gray Crag · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness severe
• Hartsop Fells and Hart Crag · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness severe
• Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Steel Fell and Tarn Crag · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness hard
• Mardale circuit · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Sour Howes, Sallows, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick and Troutbeck Tongue in the sun! · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness hard
• St Sunday Crag · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Grasmoor Round · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Whinlatter Loop · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness severe
• Alcock Tarn from Grasmere · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Allen Crags & Glaramara · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Alternative Hardknott Round (Green Crag, Harter Fell & Hard Knott) · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Ambleside to the Old Post Office Tea Room, Troutbeck (over Wansfell) · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Around Loweswater · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Around Loweswater to Fellbarrow and Low Fell · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Blencathra by Sharp Edge · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Carrock Fell and Knott · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Extended Mosedale Horseshoe · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Loughrigg Tarn & Loughrigg Fell · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Rannerdale bluebell valley and Rannerdale Knotts · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Rannerdale Knotts from Buttermere · navigation our judgement from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Stile End, Outerside, Causey Pike, Rowling End · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Whin Rigg, Illgill Head & the Wastwater Screes · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Birketts West of Thirlmere · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Boat How, Illgill Head & Whin Rigg · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness severe
• Brown Crag and Raise · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Cockup at the White Hause and other Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Cofa Pike Via Seat Sandal and Dollywaggon · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Dodd & Whiteside · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Great Borne & Starling Dodd · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• High Snockrigg, Eel Crag & Lad Hows · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• High Stile, Seat via Buttermere · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Honister to Keswick: over the Newlands fells · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Mellbreak and Crummock Water · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Scope End, Hindscarth & Dale Head from Little Town · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Three Dodds and Calfhow Pike · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Threlkeld Knotts & Clough Head · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• West of Wet Sleddale - Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard

Effort Severe, navigation Hard: 46 walks

• Angletarn Pikes and the Martindale round · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness hard
• Coniston Old Man Round · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Fusedale Circuit · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Hart Side, Stybarrow Dodd, Raise, Watson's Dodd and more · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness hard
• Helvellyn & Nethermost Pike via Seat Sandal · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Kentmere Horseshoe · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness moderate
• Langdale Pikes Round · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness severe
• Long Hike to Fairfield from Ambleside · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness hard
• Longsleddale Round (Kentmere Pike, Tarn Crag, Grey Crag & Shipman Knotts) · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Middle Dodd Little Hart Crag and High Hartsop Dodd · navigation set on the ground · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Coniston Horseshoe · navigation set on the ground · length severe, steepness hard
• The Grasmoor round: Whiteside, Hopegill Head and Whiteless Pike · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Ullscarf, Eagle Crag & Sergeant's Crag · navigation set on the ground · length hard, steepness severe
• Great Gable & Kirk Fell · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way up · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Langdale Horseshoe · navigation our judgement from the map · length severe, steepness severe
• Scar Crags, Causey Pike · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Seathwaite, Green Gable, Base Brown · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Slight Side & Sca Fell · navigation our judgement from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• The Borrowdale Fells (Rosthwaite Fell round) · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Very Long Day Out · navigation our judgement from the map · length severe, steepness severe
• Bannisdale Fell - Long Crag · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Birketts North of Skiddaw · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Birketts West of Haweswater · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Borrowdale Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Carrock Fell High Pike, Knott and Great Calva · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness severe
• Caudale Moor & St Raven's Edge · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Crookdale Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness moderate
• Finishing of the Far Eastern Fells · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness hard
• Fleetwith Edge and Haystacks · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Harrop Pike & Ancrow Brow - Birketts · navigation estimated from the map · length severe, steepness severe
• Kirk Fell and Broom Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Middle Fell, Haycock Seatallan and Buckbarrow · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Newlands Hause to the Coledale Tops · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Red Screes from Kirkstone Pass · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Round Kirk Fell from Wasdale Head · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Scale Fell and Mellbreak · navigation estimated from the map · length hard, steepness severe
• Stickle Tarn from New Dungeon Ghyll · navigation estimated from the map · length easy, steepness severe
• Stonesty Pike, Great Knott & Wrynose Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Swarth Fell and Loadpot Hill · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Buttermere Ridge · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Buttermere Ridge Anti-Clockwise · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Greendale Horseshoe · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Old Man of Coniston, up and down from Coniston · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• The Tongue Birkett · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Wetherlam by Birk Fell · navigation estimated from the map · length moderate, steepness severe

Effort Severe, navigation Severe: 2 walks

• Great Gable from Honister Slate Mine · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe
• Scafell Pike from Wasdale, by Lingmell Col · navigation our judgement from the map · length moderate, steepness severe

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Where the numbers come from

Every band: the 227 published routes’ own records, the same ones each route page is built from, read on 24 October 2026. How each navigation grade was set: the same rule the route pages use, from each route’s grading basis and whether Lee has walked it. The map rule: our route pipeline’s desk grading. Bands only; there is no score behind them.