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Title: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Percy on 08:15:46, 17/07/14
This came up in another thread yesterday. So what was your first Wainwright?


Mine was Red Pike - the Buttermere one but I always think of it as the Ennerdale one as I went up it from High Gillerthwaite.


I was 17 and at sixth form. A couple of teachers who were courting, and subsequently got married, used to take a small group of us on walking weekends. We got dropped somewhere along Ennerdale Water, the teacher then drove the minibus to Buttermere and got a taxi to drop him back to us. We went up Red Pike and along the ridge to Haystacks, then dropped down Warnscale Beck to the lake.


This trip definitely gave me a taste for it.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: robstubbs on 08:25:05, 17/07/14
One of the smaller hills around Helvellyn is about all I recall.  I just know that we did a shorter walk the day we arrived at the YH there and walked I think 2 Wainwrights - not by intent, purely circumstantial.

Rob.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: domtheone on 08:31:02, 17/07/14
As posted in that other thread. ;D

Bleaberry Fell.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 08:35:42, 17/07/14
My first was Pavey Arc by Jacks Rake when I was about 23.


I had done lots of walking but this was my first trip to the Lakes. My wife and I were staying with her brother who lived in Ulverston and he took us out for a walk. Interesting choice when we had never walked together before.


Both my kids first Wainwright was Cat Bells but, while my daughter was then happy to head back down to Derwent Water, my son insisted on carrying on to Maiden Moor,  High Spy and Dale Head. He was so tired that evening that he was sick and fell asleep almost simultaneously, this did not go down well with Mrs R.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Andy Broadley on 10:02:49, 17/07/14
Helvellyn...and it half killed me.  ;D ;D ;D



Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Rhino on 10:20:27, 17/07/14
My first was Helvellyn from Thirlmere when i was at school but on my recent quest to do all the Wainwrights it was High Pike in the Northern Fells last September, without a map and compass and straight up a hill without a path with the wife who hasnt forgive me for dragging her up there ;D  On getting to the top the view wasnt great due to the cloud but there was a slate bench in memory of Mick Lewis which was a welcome place to sit. I did wonder if there were benches on all summits at that time  ;D  sadly there isnt  :(
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: April on 10:29:16, 17/07/14
As posted in that other thread. ;D

 ;D Yoke for me like I said in the other thread

My first was Pavey Arc by Jacks Rake when I was about 23.


Crikey a baptism of fire. A strange choice like you say!

Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: fat goat on 11:47:45, 17/07/14
Catbells but my other half freaked out when she saw the mist descending on the summit so we bailed at Skelgill Bank...so technically it was Latrigg :) Most recent was Slight Side.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: jimmy mac on 13:45:27, 17/07/14
GLALAMARA VIA THORNEYWAITHE FELL JUNE 18TH 1993 O0
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Jac on 15:15:02, 17/07/14
Coniston Old Man via AW's via Boo Tarn route
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Sarah Pitht on 18:15:47, 17/07/14
It was Skiddaw when I was about 14. Went up there with my cousin and dad. We had no map, no compass, just followed a finger post at the start and the path for the rest. The top was a white out and I remember sitting in a shelter cairn having our sandwiches.

We weren't an outdoors family at all, but I was desperate to do stuff like that and get into nature. Surprised we made it back safely....

I haven't counted it towards my actual Wainwright round which I started in 2009 on holiday with the family -Red Screes.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Lindowman on 22:29:22, 17/07/14
We went up Red Pike and along the ridge to Haystacks

I had a similar first walk in the Lakes... I was 14 and on a week long school trip, the first day we walked up Red Pike from Buttermere and along the High Stile ridge to Haystacks.
It was a great introduction to the fells.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: midweekmountain on 08:12:05, 18/07/14
 I too was very lucky at school a couple of teachers were keen outdoor activists we used to have 2 weekend away trips each term and one of the summer term trips was for a full week and allowed us to go further afield.

 
After my first trip to the Peak District I was hooked from then on we went to Lakes, Dales, North Yorkshire Moors, North Wales, Scotland and last trip was the Isle of Man.
Then of course I got involved with the DofE scheme so the teachers used to let me plan and lead the walks for the group.

 
My first Wainwright was Harrison Pike aged 11 and my first Munro was Ben Lomond aged 14.
 
My daughter beat me by a mile I took her up Blencathra via Sharp Edge when she was 6.
 
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 08:33:17, 18/07/14

My first was Pavey Arc by Jacks Rake when I was about 23.

Crikey a baptism of fire. A strange choice like you say!
There is no way I would take someone I hardly knew and had never walked with up there. But, all credit to my brother-in-law, it was a wonderful day. Though I did wonder if it was a bit of a test after I had said I had done loads of walking in the Peaks.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: jacko on 12:15:59, 18/07/14
Helvelyn via striding edge, amazing and been hooked on Helvelyn ever since...did a tour of the lakes on my bike sleeping rough back in 1982, but can't for the life of me recall which fells I pushed t up?, somewhere above Kendal I think.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Oxenhoper on 21:44:07, 20/07/14
Coniston Old Man, via the tourist path from Coniston, in the autumn of 1976 when I would have been 21 or 22. 
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: rambling matelot on 13:16:41, 27/07/14
Our first was Place Fell in August 2005 - we are now on 203 and we plan our last one to be Great End on our way down off Scafell Pike.  Seems rather apt and it will be nice to finish the 214 in 2014
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 14:30:22, 27/07/14
Our first was Place Fell in August 2005 - we are now on 203 and we plan our last one to be Great End on our way down off Scafell Pike.  Seems rather apt and it will be nice to finish the 214 in 2014
After the chaos on top of Scafell Pike Great End will also be a great relief!
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: harry42 on 17:59:32, 27/07/14
Scafell Pike was my first...
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: rambling matelot on 23:39:02, 27/07/14
After the chaos on top of Scafell Pike Great End will also be a great relief!

Too right!!

Plan to get up there as early as possible and possibly even wild camp somewhere near - to be honest I hate crowds on summits at the best of times but it will be nice to get it out of the way and then explore other areas of the summit.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: AlexR on 16:02:22, 14/08/14
Helvellyn continuing around nethermost and dollywagon. Rained. ALOT. Great day though all the same. :)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Theo Frum on 23:00:03, 14/08/14
I have no idea what my first one was, but it would have been in August 1970. My first walk with a rucsac on my back was Ingleton waterfalls a year earlier.

I started bagging about 1990ish, and the final walk on 25/8/96 went:
Sour Howes >Sallows >Yoke >Ill Bell >Froswick >Thornthwaite Crag >Gray Crag.

The next one I did on the following day was Haystacks, where my dads ashes are scattered. The last Lakeland fell I stood on was Outerside on 29/8/03.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: glovepuppet on 07:06:55, 15/08/14
I started walking in the Lakes when I was about 7, on holiday with my parents. Over successive years, we ambled about a bit - although in those days I had only a rudimentary knowledge of where we went. So it could have been any time or any one.  :-\


However, I also wouldn't know whether any given top was a Wainwright or not - the whole idea of bagging lists of mountains and ticking them off has no appeal for me.


So I can't say for sure, and nor can I say I'm overly worried abut it.  :D    
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: jacko on 09:03:04, 15/08/14
I agree glovepuppet, bagging wainwrights or munros or whatever is a trifle strange..been up helvelyn and blencathra lots of times, there are lots of fells I will never climb because they are plagued by fell climbers with a tick list.....one mans opinion. ???
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 09:11:32, 15/08/14
Glovepuppet & Jacko while I understand where you are coming from, though if you've done Helvellyn loads of times you're not avoiding the crowds. What I like about Wainwright bagging, apart from ticking them off a list like some sad train spotter, is that it encourages me to explore new hills and areas I may not have considered going to.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: glovepuppet on 09:31:14, 15/08/14
I understand where you are coming from


What I like about Wainwright bagging, apart from ticking them off a list like some sad train spotter, is that it encourages me to explore new hills and areas I may not have considered going to.


I'm not saying I think it shouldn't be done, or that it's in anyway strange. Just that it holds no charm for me. I fully accept, though, that loads do the Wainwrights and are fans of AW and what he did (although I'm not). But yes, I can see using the list to encourage exploration of new hills as a positive - if that is how inspiration is gained.  ;)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: glovepuppet on 09:33:41, 15/08/14
loads do the Wainwrights and are fans of AW and what he did (although I'm not).


Sorry for quoting myself, but I just realised I have committed sacrilege - rather like dissing Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd or The Beatles.  :D


[Ducks for cover on two accounts ....... ]
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: jacko on 09:34:10, 15/08/14
I love the wide tops of helvelyn and blencathra, they give you amazing vistas, and I can escape from the 'Baggers' who touch a trig point and tear of to do the next in their quest to do the personnal challenge they have set themselves, in the time they have allowed themselves....one mans opinion 8)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 10:30:49, 15/08/14
I was absolutely not saying that you guys were wrong, just that we are different.
The only thing that should be compulsory about going walking is that you do what you enjoy and to hell with the rest of the world.

Ridge

ps So it's not just me that doesn't get the Beatles then.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: April on 12:41:10, 15/08/14
loads do the Wainwrights and are fans of AW and what he did (although I'm not).

Sorry for quoting myself, but I just realised I have committed sacrilege

 :o   :o  Sacrilege indeed  :o   ;) 
 
I started on my sixth round of the Wainwrights a few years ago and sort of gave up and started doing the fells I fancied doing instead. I found it was too difficult to choose which ones to do though   ;D  I'm helping Beefy do his first round of the Wainwrights so I'll end up completing my sixth round after all. I must be a trifle strange x 6 then  ;D
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 12:45:47, 15/08/14
I must be a trifle strange x 6 then  ;D
Now tell us something we don't know
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: glovepuppet on 13:10:25, 15/08/14
we are different.
The only thing that should be compulsory about going walking is that you do what you enjoy and to hell with the rest of the world.


Absolutely - couldn't agree more!  O0


And while I'm in the process of ostracizing myself from everyone on here, I'm not massively fond of the Lake District myself these days.


 :o


I used to go quite frequently with the family in the 1970s and 1980s, and remember it differently to the busy, crowded, expensive honey-pot it now is - which upsets me, as it undeniably has it's charms.


I do go from time to time, but for me the experience is a mixed one.  :-\
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Theo Frum on 13:16:08, 15/08/14
After I finished the Wainwrights, it made a nice change to just go and explore wherever I felt like, visiting some old favourites that I hadn't seen for a while. After a while I got bored with going where I pleased though, and started looking for another agenda to motivate my choices, so I started working on Birketts and Nuttalls tick lists, but not so single mindedly. After my fitness started to fail I turned my attention to the Marilyns, but I didn't get much farther than ticking off the ones I had already done.

The point about tick lists taking you places you wouldn't have otherwise gone is a good one. When I switched from walking to cycling I felt in need of an objective, so I started trying to tick off all the youth hostels in the YHA handbook, and it took me into areas I wouldn't have given a second thought to in my walking days. (Ticking off hostels keeps you busy, because it's a moving target!)

Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: jacko on 16:40:29, 15/08/14
I used to think I was strange for sailing up my favourite fells time after, but they feel like old friends and surprise me all the time. No matter where you walk, enjoy what it brings to you, we are all different. I have to admit I now walk a lot from Haweswater, I love the drive in and am always looking for the EAGLE!!!! :o
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Walkerflyer on 05:52:21, 23/10/14
Around 1975, being dragged on a walk by mum and dad, I was 12, my first fell walk....and theirs! They planned Helvellyn from Patterdale but we were woefully equipped and dad sensibly turned back at the hole in the wall when it was obvious that our sandals wouldn't do so well going further forward. We went back to civilisation straight down the ridge and taking in Birkhouse Moor on the way.

What other fell walkers must've made of the sight of us you can imagine :-)

Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: AmblingScrambler on 00:41:19, 26/10/14



First morning at the old Achille Ratti hut on Dunmail Raise we were told to go "up there and back" before breakfast. So my first Lakeland top was Steel Fell in a pair of plimsolls. It was 1971 and I was 11.


We did the Langdale Pikes later that day (in slightly better kit) and got thoroughly drenched, but I was already hooked.
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Post by: huking+daz on 14:45:48, 26/10/14
Everything I had done before I've scraped reall so this weekend I started a clean run starting with grate Mell and little mell fells with my climbing buddy

Hoping to some trip reports

Look out for the pics and reports with out sloth that we take along with us

Will explain at a later date what it's about but all gd fun
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Post by: urbanhymn01 on 13:07:40, 03/11/14
Scafell pike for me start with the biggest and one of the best for me still love to get up there at least once a year it as something about it what makes it special when its not rammed out
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: henryb on 21:08:57, 23/11/14
Causey Pike in the NW fells followed by Catbells
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Post by: jhatter on 09:11:45, 23/12/14
Helvellyn from thirlmere, with the scouts, 1982-ish. It was winter, there was lots of snow but very enjoyable. We stayed in the Grasmere youth hostel, then climbed Seargant Man the next day - a fantastic weekend and a great introduction to the Lake District
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Post by: kevilsonlad on 19:53:01, 28/12/14
Haystacks from Gatesgarth farm and one we will never forget .....................amazing
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Post by: cumbrian green on 18:21:08, 04/01/15
great gable from wasdale head,2008 my first ever visit to the lake district,no rucksack and wearing trainers :D
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Post by: LOSEHILL NICK on 13:09:40, 26/05/15
i wish i knew i was only about 8 and my dad forgot what it was but it was above langdale somewhere (makes counting my wainwrights tricky)
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Post by: Phileas on 15:08:22, 13/06/15
Scafell Pike from Seathwaite in May 2010 as part of the 3 Peaks Challenge.
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Post by: Backmarker on 21:05:11, 10/09/15
Circa. 1980 headed off to the Lakes for the first time. A no particular agenda camping trip with a couple of mates. First stop after taking my 1972 Capri up 'The struggle' was the Kirkstone Inn. After a pub lunch and a couple of pints we were over the road and up the nearest hillside to try and burn it off. We  would have been 'appropriately' atired in Jeans, t-shirt and trainers and soon hit a summit after a scramble of some kind.
Research many years later reveals this was unknowingly my first wainwright RED SCREES.
A few days later and having invested in some kind of a map we were up SCAFELL PIKE in thick low cloud. Somehow hit target.
Makes me laugh looking back how easily we bagged these peaks in comparison to the extensive trouble I go to now over kit and route planning.
Happy Days.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: J0J0 on 07:27:02, 01/08/16
I started off small - very small it was Orrest Head  :P  I'm not sure its officially a Wainwright in its own right, but I know it gets a mention by him in the relevant book, failing that then the next was Helm Crag.....I started at the bottom and continue working up  :D !!!
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Skip on 10:19:07, 01/08/16
Can't remember dates of the many earlier ones but the ascent that I logged as the first of my Wainwright-bagging round was Scafell Pike from Brackenclose (via the tourist route).
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Mel on 20:29:07, 01/08/16
My first one was Catbells and my most recent one was High Rigg.  My highest one was Blencathra and the one I liked the least was Latrigg.
 
The only ones that I have earmarked for bagging are Helvellyn (cos I like the name) and Scafell Pike (cos it's the highest in England).
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Yorkshirewalker26 on 18:19:35, 22/08/16
My first was Gowbarrow Fell on a walk around the Aira Force waterfall.
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Post by: Hedgetrimmer on 17:02:02, 11/09/16
I didn't start walking in the Lake District until my big trip from mid April to mid June in 2012. My first Wainwright I suppose would have been Catbells, and carried on over Maiden Moor and High Spy. Knocked a few off during those two months though.


I don't even possess a list of them all  :-[
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Post by: NewWalkerMark on 12:36:16, 28/09/16
I was thinking Orrest Head would be, but as it doesn't appear to be listed, it would have to be Scafell Pike. Most recent is Binsey (done in the rain and fog this morning)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Bhod on 23:29:43, 24/06/17
Bowfell my very first at the tender age of 16 (nearly 36 years ago), most recently Blencathra and soon to be added Skiddaw and Little Man.
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Post by: willow229 on 13:54:03, 25/06/17
My first was Low Fell, fantastic views and my last was Blencathra a few weeks ago. Went up on Monday afternoon and saw hardly a soul - bliss!
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Post by: Seferix on 10:02:54, 08/12/17
From when I started recording my first Wainwright was Pavey Ark in Great Langdale.
(although I am aware I went up Loughrigg Fell when I was about 7 years old...)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 10:10:31, 08/12/17
From when I started recording my first Wainwright was Pavey Ark in Great Langdale.
Mine too, snap.
Did you go up by Jacks Rake?
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Seferix on 10:45:45, 08/12/17
Mine too, snap.
Did you go up by Jacks Rake?


I didn't Ridge no, went up North Rake but have been up Jacks Rake a few times now  :)
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Post by: Onemanandhisdogs on 20:02:06, 30/12/17
Fairfield on a School fellwalk trip in 1973 when I was 14.


Do Schools still do weekend fellwalks?
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Post by: richardh1905 on 08:26:34, 21/06/18

I have no idea what a 'Wainwright' is in hill terms, but the first hill that I remember was Helm Crag above Grasmere, at the age of 7 with my father - it seemed like a mountain to me at the time!


Edit - ah; now I understand. And lowly Helm Crag is number 201 on the list.


Never was a fan of his books, by the way (/heresy)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: dittzzy on 00:40:15, 22/06/18
I have no idea what a 'Wainwright' is in hill terms, but the first hill that I remember was Helm Crag above Grasmere, at the age of 7 with my father - it seemed like a mountain to me at the time!


Edit - ah; now I understand. And lowly Helm Crag is number 201 on the list.


Never was a fan of his books, by the way (/heresy)
Well, Helm Crag was my first Lake District Fell and also my first Wainwright.  Oh, and I've never opened a Wainwright book.  (Even greater heresy?)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: richardh1905 on 07:28:45, 22/06/18

Well, Helm Crag was my first Lake District Fell and also my first Wainwright.  Oh, and I've never opened a Wainwright book.  (Even greater heresy?)
Quite a coincidence.  :)

My mother was very keen on Wainwright's books, and I believe still has the full set.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Telluric on 13:22:23, 10/11/18
Mine was Skiddaw around 8 years ago with my best mate who is sadly no longer with us, a very memorable few days. We also took in Blencathra and Cat Bells / High Spy. A fantastic trip that has kept me coming back for more.
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Post by: ninthace on 13:52:58, 10/11/18
Dollywaggon Pike back in 1969 on the way up to Helvellyn.  Not sure we even had Wainwrights then, I think they were just hills in those days but I am ready to be corrected.
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Post by: pdstsp on 11:55:07, 22/11/18
My first was Wansfell in June 1968, but, unfortunately, as I was only coming up to 5 at the time, I hitched a ride on my dad's shoulders for the last pull to the summit, so I didn't count that ascent as being all mine. 


As a result I made Wansfell my last one when completing the round - almost exactly 50 years to the day later - seemed appropriate.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 13:49:13, 22/11/18
My first was Wansfell in June 1968, but, unfortunately, as I was only coming up to 5 at the time, I hitched a ride on my dad's shoulders for the last pull to the summit, so I didn't count that ascent as being all mine. 


As a result I made Wansfell my last one when completing the round - almost exactly 50 years to the day later - seemed appropriate.
That's interesting pdstsp, my son's first Wainwright was Dodd but he did that entirely on my shoulders as he was only 3 months old. He has decided to make it his last one.
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Post by: pdstsp on 13:56:00, 22/11/18
Great minds think alike!  I bet that will be a great experience - I take it you'll be accompanying him? 


Unfortunately, my dad passed away some years ago, before I'd even come back to walking as a pastime, after many years of competitive sport and cycle touring, so he wasn't able to see the influence he had.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Ridge on 14:03:55, 22/11/18
Great minds think alike!  I bet that will be a great experience - I take it you'll be accompanying him? 
I'll be there with him.
If all goes to plan it should be next summer which will be 21 years after the first ascent.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: pdstsp on 16:29:56, 22/11/18
I'm sure that'll be a very memorable day. 
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: darrenw on 11:51:41, 05/06/19
Hi, new here - 1st post


I think mine was Skiddaw in 2002/3 ish with my wife (then gf). Quite grim on top so we didnt hang around but went up Little Man on the way down.


I say I think it was Skiddaw - I went to the Lakes a couple of times with Scouts/Cubs as a kid. We did a few walks around Rydal/Grasmere but I don't recall visiting any tops.
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Post by: madame cholet on 21:34:02, 05/06/19
I think we did the gables
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Post by: Bigfoot_Mike on 22:48:53, 05/06/19
I believe it would have been Hellvellyn via Striding Edge and Swirral Edge in the late 1980s.
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Post by: Resonate on 01:43:41, 01/01/20
Catbells from Derwent Water when I was 8
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Post by: Ferret on 15:55:58, 25/06/20
October 2003: First trip the the Lake District. Great Gable from Wasdale. Thoroughly enjoyed it however, strangely enough, despite going back to Cumbria at least a half a dozen times a year since (until this year!), I've never been back up.


We walked up Scafell Pike, the following day to complete a memorable weekend.
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Post by: Booga on 16:07:41, 30/07/20
Mine was Harrison Stickle I think. My friend took me camping in Langdale one August and I remember the path was just a long line of people heading up to Langdale Pikes from the car park.
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Post by: shortwalker on 18:39:43, 30/07/20
Am I still allowed to be a member, as I have never done, nor am I likely to do a Wainwright walk?
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: AMB1980 on 20:31:04, 17/08/20
Not my first but may daughters...castle crag about a month ago (she’s 9).


I think my first was walla crag.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: windyrigg on 15:59:18, 18/08/20
Gowbarrow was number 1 in 1982, now on second round started on Knott (High Street). Things havent gone quite as planned this year......but had a great day out last week in the heat - Barrow, Outerside, Sail, Scar Crags, Causey Pike; trying to find those less visited hills at present.
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Post by: Traipse on 15:24:22, 10/05/21
Scafell Pike from Dungeon Ghyll. Bad fog all the way, [censored] all view, came down about a 3rd of the way in the dark and took me 12 hours lol. Loved and hated it. lol
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Post by: Slowcoach on 15:37:08, 10/05/21
1964 Wetherlam from Coniston
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Post by: Ray-S on 21:04:01, 13/05/21
Arthurs Pike I think.  Done it about 10 times now. Park in Askham at the swimming pool, drop £1 in the honesty box and set off. Either retrace my steps or go down to Pooley Bridge for a baked potato and a coffee or beer then back to Askham and a 35 minute drive home.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: BillyHill on 00:24:48, 07/08/21
Skiddaw Metamorphic Aureole  :)


Would have been 15.
Did an O’Level in Geology, and the teacher, an inspirational fell running Boltonian, took us out on regular field trips all over the the place from Peak to Lake District.


Passed my Geology exams but couldn’t even get a job down the local pits!
Near miss as it turned out I guess  :o
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: stevemmitchell on 20:45:14, 24/11/21
Loughrigg Fell, on a family holiday aged 13....


First as an adult on my own trip to the Lakes was Helvellyn (a few years later).
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: mmc_hiker on 21:34:17, 26/12/21
Latrigg... As a virgin hiker I remember complaining about how far you had to walk from Keswick to the start of the climb  :2funny:
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Sarah Pitht on 22:03:25, 18/04/22
Binsey - my grandson’s first Wainwright today. :)  He was in a baby carrier which I hope is allowed as he is only 11 weeks old. 👶 We can’t wait till he manages them
under his own steam!
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Anna G on 09:38:48, 26/07/22
Scafell Pike from Dungeon Ghyll on 16th July, very hot day indeed but glorious! I enjoyed it so much I did Pike o'Blisco and Lingmoor Fell the next day. Have already booked my next trip!
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: pdstsp on 10:44:59, 26/07/22
Started with an easy walk then Anna ;D .  That's a cracking day out on a nice day.
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Anna G on 14:46:08, 26/07/22
Started with an easy walk then Anna ;D .  That's a cracking day out on a nice day.
;D Yes, a little stroll shall we say?! Unfortunately an ultra triathlon was on the same day with the athletes using that route to charge up and down Scafell Pike - so there was heavy traffic up what might usually be a more quiet route.

That first assent up Rossett Gill nearly did me in but after that things seemed a bit easier.


Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: Skip on 16:27:17, 26/07/22
Scafell Pike from Dungeon Ghyll . . .  I did Pike o'Blisco and Lingmoor Fell the next day.

An excellent two days then  :)
How about writing a Trip Report? (http://walkingforum.co.uk/Themes/default/images/post/tr.gif)
Title: Re: Your first Wainwright?
Post by: hudi on 14:12:27, 30/03/23
helvellyn on Tuesday!