Challenges

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Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

Your probably going to get shouted at!!!!

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I would like a list of some of the regular walking challenges that are held in the UK below are
some that i have found already

Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

How about going for a walk on the hills that no-one else has done before and is not eroded to hell?

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In article <[email hidden]>, Frazer Mountford
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I would like a list of some of the regular walking challenges that are held in the UK below are
some that i have found already

Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

Lake District:

3,000s

Pennines/Peak District:

Tan Hill to Cat and Fiddle

Peak District:

Derwent Watershed

Marsden to Edale in winter (although so much of it is paved now it hardly qualifies as a challenge)

Five Inns (extension of the Marsden to Edale to finish at the Cat and Fiddle)

Eastern Edges
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Russ Clare

In article <[email hidden]>, Martin Richardson
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How about going for a walk on the hills that no-one else has done before

Now that really would be a tick list worth having 🙂
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Russ Clare

Frazer Mountford said:

I would like a list of some of the regular walking challenges that are held in the UK below are
some that i have found already

Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

There's a three peaks challenge around Abergavenny, details here;
cardiffoutdoorgroup.org.uk3pt.htmOpen ↗ abergavenny.netoutdoors.htmOpen ↗

Paul
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Frazer Mountford said:

I would like a list of some of the regular walking challenges that are held in the UK below are
some that i have found already

Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

The lower classes of Mountain Marathons are generally suitable for walking. Part of the challenge is
you don't know exactly where you're going in advance, but it *will* be a challenge, and part of the
challenge will include navigation. Google the LAMM, KIMM and SLMM for more details, each is an
annual event and very well organised.

Pete.
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Quoted message said:

I would like a list of some of the regular walking challenges that are

held

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in the UK below are some that i have found already

Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

If it is still done, there is the annual TGO Challenge walk. I think it takes place in May and you
are walking from one side of Scotland to the other.

There is also the circular route out of Kirby Stephen taking in Wild Boar Fell and Mallerstang edge.

The LDWA might also be able to help.

Regards

Bernard

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From my youth I remember the Four Inns walk (though I never did it).

You are right - the classic route does indeed start at the Isle of Skye. The route then crosses
Black Hill and Bleaklow to the Snake Inn, then to Edale and the Nag's Head, and then on to the Cat
and Fiddle to finish.

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The first inn was the Isle Of Skye on the A635 Holmfirth/Greenfield road, a few miles south
of Marsden.

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(The inn no longer existed even then, though the road junction where it had stood was still known
locally as the Isle Of Skye.)

It still is - I think it closed in the early 1950s

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The last inn was the Cat & Fiddle. I'm pretty sure one of the ones in the middle was Snake Inn. But
I can't remember the fourth inn, and I didn't know it had acquired a fifth.

A variant - you can start in Marsden at the (name escapes me) Inn/pub/hotel, and walk up to the Isle
of Skye past the Wessenden reservoirs.

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Russ Clare

sandy saunders said:

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Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

Your probably going to get shouted at!!!!

Of course he means the Yorkshire Three Peaks....

Richard Webb

Russ Clare wrote on Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:51:37 +0000....

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Five Inns (extension of the Marsden to Edale to finish at the Cat and Fiddle)

From my youth I remember the Four Inns walk (though I never did it).

The first inn was the Isle Of Skye on the A635 Holmfirth/Greenfield road, a few miles south of
Marsden. (The inn no longer existed even then, though the road junction where it had stood was still
known locally as the Isle Of Skye.) The last inn was the Cat & Fiddle. I'm pretty sure one of the
ones in the middle was Snake Inn. But I can't remember the fourth inn, and I didn't know it had
acquired a fifth.

Can you enlighten me?

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Quoted message said:

I would like a list of some of the regular walking challenges that are

held

Quoted message said:

in the UK below are some that i have found already

Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

If it is still done, there is the annual TGO Challenge walk. I think it takes place in May and you
are walking from one side of Scotland to the other.

Still is , but the 2004 entries have closed. Mind you can still walk across Scotland if you want,
and many do, outwith the Challenge.

Richard Webb

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sandy saunders said:

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Welsh 3000 3 peaks 10 Tors

Are there any more?

Your probably going to get shouted at!!!!

Of course he means the Yorkshire Three Peaks....

On a bike!! I reckon a regular makes an annual flame just for the craic.

Graham

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Five Inns (extension of the Marsden to Edale to finish at the Cat and Fiddle)

Quoted message said:

From my youth I remember the Four Inns walk (though I never did it).

Quoted message said:

The first inn was the Isle Of Skye on the A635 Holmfirth/Greenfield road, a few miles south of
Marsden. (The inn no longer existed even then, though the road junction where it had stood was
still known locally as the Isle Of Skye.) The last inn was the Cat & Fiddle. I'm pretty sure one
of the ones in the middle was Snake Inn. But I can't remember the fourth inn, and I didn't know it
had acquired a fifth.

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Can you enlighten me?

According to Eric Byne the first extension to the Marsden Edale was the 3 Inns in 1922 - Cat and
Fiddle, Snake Inn and Isle of Skye. And "in modern times the route has been varied to include four,
five or even more inns, among them the George and Dragon at Woodhead, the Flouch near Hazlehead and
the Nag's Head in Edale."

With regard to the OP there are literally hundreds of challenge walks these days even excluding
those that can only be walked as an organised event such as the Fellsman Hike. The most popular used
to be the Lyke Wake Walk which probably had more completions in a single day than the notionally
similar Derwent Watershed had in a full year.

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Tim Jackson said:

Russ Clare wrote on Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:51:37 +0000....

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Five Inns (extension of the Marsden to Edale to finish at the Cat and Fiddle)

From my youth I remember the Four Inns walk (though I never did it).

The first inn was the Isle Of Skye on the A635 Holmfirth/Greenfield road, a few miles south of
Marsden. (The inn no longer existed even then, though the road junction where it had stood was
still known locally as the Isle Of Skye.) The last inn was the Cat & Fiddle. I'm pretty sure one
of the ones in the middle was Snake Inn. But I can't remember the fourth inn, and I didn't know it
had acquired a fifth.

Can you enlighten me?

dynarx.demon.co.ukfourinnsOpen ↗

The Nags Head, Edale.

Was part of the George Keeling Trophy ("tyro trophy"😉 winning team in 1970

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(Should be Kyall VSU, not Kayall)

I think Russ is misremembering, as he calls it an extension of Marsden-Edale, but Marsden-Edale is
only three of the four Inns!

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Five Inns (extension of the Marsden to Edale to finish at the Cat and Fiddle)

Quoted message said:

From my youth I remember the Four Inns walk (though I never did it).

Quoted message said:

The first inn was the Isle Of Skye on the A635 Holmfirth/Greenfield

road,

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a few miles south of Marsden. (The inn no longer existed even then, though the road junction
where it had stood was still known locally as the Isle Of Skye.) The last inn was the Cat &
Fiddle. I'm pretty sure one of the ones in the middle was Snake Inn. But I can't remember the
fourth inn, and I didn't know it had acquired a fifth.

Quoted message said:

Can you enlighten me?

According to Eric Byne the first extension to the Marsden Edale was the 3 Inns in 1922 - Cat and
Fiddle, Snake Inn and Isle of Skye. And "in modern times the route has been varied to include
four, five or even more inns, among them the George and Dragon at Woodhead, the Flouch near
Hazlehead and the Nag's Head in Edale."

This sounds like a pub crawl to me!

Bernard