Ask A Lakeland Expert

Cumbria Tourist Board has launched an online outdoors forum where users can ask questions to eight local Lake District experts in popular outdoor fields.

No, not those sorts of fields, we're talking popular activities like walking, climbing, scrambling, canoeing, cycling and sailing. There's also a special 'Safety' forum for the truly paranoid among you. Each of the eight forum sections has a designated expert drawn from a company specialising in the activity in question, but you can also benefit from the advice of fellow forum users, which sounds rather familiar.

Our fave expert by the way, is the rather nicely named 'Baz Brush', who's all set to answer your questions on canoeing.

Right now, the forum's dead quiet and all the experts are no doubt out enjoying themselves, but if you have a specifically Lakeland outdoors question that you want an answer to, have a look at www.lakedistrictoutdoors.co.uk.

You can also check out details of travel and accommodation on the site as well as finding more detailed activity information including, in some cases, downloadable routes - lucky, lucky mountain bikers eh...