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Lake District
4 day trip, arriving Saturday afternoon, and leaving Wednesday afternoon. Aim to get 3×40 = 120 points! To celebrate everyone's 40th. Hopefully the weather is nice…
Scafell Four
The Big One. Consisting of:
Route
Starts at the car park before you get to Wasdale Head Inn. The big climb up to and across from Scafell Pike before the other three. Probably in the region of 9 hours round trip, including time to activate per summit.
Helvellyn Four
Consisting of:
Route
Park by the White Lion hotel in Patterdale, and it's a loop around them all and back again. Circa 8 hours including activations.
High Street Three
Consisting of:
Route
Park at Kirkstone Pass car park, go NW to Stony Cove then High Street, turn around and back to the car park. Red Screes is the other side but a quick up and down…
Skiddaw and Blencathra
These could be done individually, for example in the afternoon after the High Street route, or perhaps in the morning before leaving to go home. There is an option of doing both together, probably the most interesting would be with two cars at either end, so there wasn't such a big return loop or so much step retracing.
Route
I've done the route from Scales, up Blencathra, then across to Skiddaw and down to Rabbit Warren parking. There are a few parking areas on the way back, Dodd woods or even up to Peterhouse cottages, just wherever you can find! Around 5:15 all in with activations.
Individually
Blencathra
Up and down from Scales plus activating would be around 2 hours plus activation time.
Skiddaw
A nice loop starting from Rabbit Warran parking, covering several other tops, is around 3 hours plus activation time.
But there are many routes up Skiddaw. A slightly shorter route is up and down from Millbeck, but only by 30 minutes.
Others
Do Cross Fell (8) on the way down, parking by the radar entrance?