Living in Sheffield the Lake District is a drive away so would like to make the most of the cost and do a 3 day, wild-camp, hike. Ideally taking in Scafell, or at least giving us the option to if conditions are appropriate when we get there.
I'm not too worried about conditions as I'm looking at August but as I don't know the Lake District I need some ideas on routes.
In the Peak District we tend to do 10-15 miles a day on 2 day (campsite) hikes if that helps provide an idea what level we're at in terms of distance etc.
If you're not very familiar with the LD, what about basing your hike on the Cumbria Way?
The section from Conniston to Keswick is (very roughly) thirty-odd miles so that would give you three ten-mile days (which would allow time for diversions to higher ground) or two fifteen mile days of fairly easy going.
Northwest of Great Langdale, the Cumbria Way climbs out of Mickleden from where you could divert towards the Scafell massif.
A quick Google will give you lots of links including:
There are so many options If you go on where's the path (early because it gets busy) You can play around with your own routes and work out the ascent, ans save them as a GPX file to put in a GPS.If you work on doing 1000m or so of ascent a day or make it slightly less ascent and distance each day you should be fine. You could go to Scafell from every direction and have an amazing time, you could take in Ridges one way and the valleys on the way back. Vg backpacking should have some good ideas too about how they breakdown their trips.
One of my favourite 2/3 dayers in the Lakes is an extended Buttermere Round.
Red Pike, High Crag, High Stile, Pillar, Little Scoat, t'other Red Pike, Yewbarrow, beer in the Wasdale Head, Kirk Fell, Great Gable, Green Gable, Brandreth, Haystacks and back to Buttermere.
You could easily add in Scafell (Pike?) or do it and skip Little Scoat, t'other Red Pike, Yewbarrow, Kirk Fell and the Gables to keep it shorter.
As Simo says; so many options. Get yourself the BMC/Harveys map of the Lakes and spread it out on the floor
I was thinking of that same walk, but perhaps walking back down Ennerdale valley.It's a pretty special part of the country, If you take in those peaks mentioned above you wont be disapointed.
If you go on where's the path (early because it gets busy) You can play around with your own routes and work out the ascent, ans save them as a GPX file to put in a GPS.If you work on doing 1000m or so of ascent a day or make it slightly less ascent and distance each day you should be fine. You could go to Scafell from every direction and have an amazing time, you could take in Ridges one way and the valleys on the way back. Vg backpacking should have some good ideas too about how they breakdown their trips.
