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Skiddaw
Via Jenkin Hill

approach route from Keswick

  

Directions (2)
(shorter walk)

Go through a gate at the top end of the Car Park. Straight ahead is the ridge known as Blencathra, or The Saddleback. Turn left and walk towards a kissing gate then continue to another gate. Pass a Stone Cross (Hawell Memorial) and follow the line of the fence, which soon leads to a wide, clear gravelled path leading up the mountain.

Pass through another gate then continue up a zig-zag path that is the steepest section of this walk. The summit peak ahead is Little Man but your route veers right just before that summit approach and goes through a gate and along a gentle incline pointing towards Skiddaw.

At the end of this gentle incline go through a gate and climb up to a cairn. From here a row of cairns accompanies the path to the summit ridge and along the ridge to the summit itself.

Return to the Car Park by the same route.

 Walk along the A 519 road (Victoria Street) leading out from the centre of town in the Windermere direction. At the War Memorial turn left into Station Road and walk past Fitz Park. Cross the bridge beside the YHA Youth Hostel and continue past the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery to the Leisure Pool. Walk round behind the Leisure Pool and out of the Car Park at the back, crossing a mini-roundabout. Go up steps onto a footpath that runs alongside the road (behind a hedge). Cross a side road and continue on the footpath until it runs out. The hill on the right is Latrigg. Carry on in the same direction up the road for about 200 yds then turn off onto a bridle path signposted 'Skiddaw 4 miles'. The track is called Spooney Green Lane and shortly crosses the main A66 via a footbridge. Continue up the hill to where another footpath joins from the right (beside a tree and a large, carved gatepost that no longer supports a gate).

Where the path forks, keep left. You have now skirted Latrigg and are about to walk round Mallen Dodd. Go through a gate. The path runs alongside a conifer plantation, bounded by a wire fence. Follow the path up and round to a Car Park at the top end of a road (the start point for the shorter walk).

Go through a gate at the top end of the Car Park. Straight ahead is the ridge known as Blencathra, or The Saddleback. Turn left and walk towards a kissing gate then continue to another gate. Pass a Stone Cross (Hawell Memorial) and follow the line of the fence, which soon leads to a wide, clear gravelled path leading up the mountain.

Pass through another gate then continue up a zig-zag path that is the steepest section of this walk. The summit peak ahead is Little Man but your route veers right just before that summit approach and goes through a gate and along a gentle incline pointing towards Skiddaw.

At the end of this gentle incline go through a gate and climb up to a cairn. From here a row of cairns accompanies the path to the summit ridge and along the ridge to the summit itself.

Return to Keswick by retracing the outward route

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Ordnance Survey - 1:25000 - Penrith & Keswick- 90
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