STOP PRESS

19 August 2010 - I've recently returned from a walking holiday in the Rila Mountains of Bulgaria. Brief details and lots of pictures can be found here.

19 July 2010 - I've completed details of a new walk, the Swindale Circuit here. Descriptions of the photographs are now finished.

25 April 2010 - Certain browsers, most notably Safari and Chrome, do not yet render the OS maps correctly. I've reintroduced the old maps, for almost all the walks, for these browser users.

8 April 2010 - I've changed all the maps to Ordnance Survey Open Source.

3 April 2010 - I've modified the Longsleddale Round to start from Sadgill and added pictures reflecting this change. The new Ordnance Survey map of the walk is a result of the recent OS Open Space initiative. I shall be adding OS maps to my other walks in the near future replacing the scrappy sketches I've used until now.

16 March 2010 - I've added a new screensaver of high quality images for widescreen monitors of Lakeland and my trips abroad. It is available for download here.

• The site contains detailed descriptions of over 40 walks. The outlines of the walks and links to the details can be found on Walks Index page.
• There are well over 300 photographs, almost all of them being directly related to the walks. Links to them appear within the detailed description pages, but for an index of them all see the Photo Index, Highlights, Links and Jottings page. This also contains a summary of highlights of the walks with star ratings for their quality and difficulty, a facility to contact the writer, links to other Lake District web sites, and assorted jottings.
• If you are new to this site, try following one of the walks, downloading the photographs when you reach them in the text. A good example is the walk over Catstye Cam & Helvellyn.
• Fourteen of the best pictures appear in the Lake District Walks Screen Saver which is free.
• There are also screensavers of my pictures from Peru, Ethiopia and from Egypt here, which are also free.
• You'll find other visitors' comments on the site and on Lakeland in the Visitors' Book.
• The author is not able at present to guide over the fells (pressure of work) but the page on walkers' responsibilities has useful information on equipment, food & drink and suchlike.
• If there are particular locations you are interested in, there is a Site Search Engine which will find all occurrences on the site of your chosen words/names.
• A Walk Distance Calculator and GPS Section provide navigational assistance including grid coordinates for key points on all the Lakeland walks.

John Dawson supports WaterAid

and Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association