Skiddaw

Skiddaw est une montagne dans le Lake District en Angleterre. Son sommet à 931 m d'altitude est le 6e plus haut d'Angleterre. Il est situé juste au nord de la ville de Keswick, en Cumbria, et domine l'horizon de cette partie des lacs septentrionaux. C'est la montagne la plus facile à gravir du Lake District (un chemin de randonnée balisé pour les touristes part d'un parc de stationnement automobile vers le nord-est de Keswick, près du sommet du Latrigg (en)). De nombreux guides de randonnées pédestres recommandent cette ascension aux marcheurs occasionnels. C'est le premier sommet d'un parcours de course de fells connu sous le nom de Bob Graham Round lorsque l'épreuve est disputée dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre. La montagne donne son nom aux zones voisines de Skiddaw Forest et de Back o' Skidda', ainsi qu'à Skiddaw House (en), un ancien pavillon de chasse transformé en auberge de jeunesse, située à l'est. Elle donne également son nom à une ardoise exploitée dans cette région la Skiddaw Slate (en). Des instruments à percussion ou lithophones, fabriqués avec cette ardoise, sont connus comme les pierres musicales de Skiddaw (en) et conservées au Keswick Museum and Art Gallery (en).

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Skiddaw is a mountain in the Lake District National Park in England. Its 931-metre (3,054 ft) summit is traditionally considered to be the fourth-highest peak but depending on what topographic prominence is thought to be significant is also variously ranked as the third- and the sixth-highest in England. It lies just north of the town of Keswick, Cumbria, in the historic county of Cumberland and dominates the skyline in this part of the northern lakes. It is the simplest of the Lake District mountains of this height to ascend (as there is a well-trodden tourist track from a car park to the north-east of Keswick, near the summit of Latrigg) and, as such, many walking guides recommend it to the occasional walker wishing to climb a mountain. This is the first summit of the fell running challenge known as the Bob Graham Round when undertaken in a clockwise direction. The mountain lends its name to the surrounding areas of Skiddaw Forest and Back o' Skidda, and to the isolated Skiddaw House, situated to the east, formerly a shooting lodge and subsequently a youth hostel. It also provides the name for the slate derived from that region: Skiddaw slate. Skiddaw slate has been used to make tuned percussion musical instruments or lithophones, such as the Musical Stones of Skiddaw held at the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery.

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Carl Side

Carl Side is a fell in the English Lake District, forming a part of the Skiddaw "family" near the town of Keswick and prominently visible from its streets. It is listed in Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells as one of the Northern Fells.

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Long Side

Long Side is a fell in the English Lake District, it is situated six kilometres north west of Keswick in the northern sector of the national park and is part of the Skiddaw group of fells. Long Side which reaches a height of 734 metres (2,408 ft) is located on Skiddaw’s north western ridge, the middle section of which is known as Longside Edge. Strictly speaking the actual summit of the fell is nameless with the name Long Side applying to the south western slope below the summit and is so marked on maps. The fell is often climbed by walkers on their way to the summit of Skiddaw, the route up the north west ridge which passes over Long Side is regarded as being the finest and quietest ascent of that 3,000-foot (910 m) mountain by guide book writers.

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Skiddaw Little Man

Skiddaw Little Man, also called Little Man, is a fell in the English Lake District; it is situated four kilometres north of the town of Keswick and reaches a height of 865 metres (2,838 ft).

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Ullock Pike

Ullock Pike is a fell situated in northern part of the English Lake District. It is located seven kilometres north west of Keswick and achieves a height of 691 metres (2,267 ft). The fell sits on Skiddaw’s south western ridge along with two other fells (Long Side and Carl Side), this ridge is regarded as the finest way to ascend Skiddaw, with Alfred Wainwright commenting: ‘There is no doubt in my mind that by far the best approach to the top of Skiddaw is by way of its north-west ridge. This offers a fine expedition along a narrow crest in exciting surroundings and provides excellent views throughout … for the collector of summits here are three waiting to be picked off in addition to Skiddaw’.

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