Clough head to grasmere

Just when you thought this long day high up in the Lake District couldn’t get any better, it saves the best until last.

• Distance: 8 miles/12.7km • Time: 4½ ...

• Distance: 8¾ miles/14.2km • Time: 4½ ...

Perhaps more than any other fell in the Lake District, HELVELLYN is best known for its ridges – two of them particularly. There are a couple more that are worthy of note though, even if they aren’t really Helvellyn’s.

CLASSIC WITH A TWIST

Gird your loins for a tough, steep, pathless ascent, but then settle in for a straightforward Lakeland round.