Long Course Checkpoints

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The course is a 50 mile circular route starting and finishing in Keswick and tackling many of the highest peaks in the Lake District. The route is fully flagged and a GPS track is available. Completion of this course will earn you 3 UTMB points and a step closer to gaining entry for this elite event!

The route will take you over dramatic rocky crags, across open moorland and through low lying bogs following an anti- clockwise loop bagging the peaks in the following order:

Leg 1 – Keswick to Honister – 13km (of which 5km is on tarmac) with 800m of ascent

1 – Cat Bells – 451m

2 – High Spy – 653m

Leg 2 – Honister to Wasdale – 15km with 1500m of ascent

3 – Haystacks – 597m

4 – Pillar – 892m

Leg 3 - Wasdale to Thirlmere – 22km with 1500m of ascent

5 – Scafell Pike – 977m

6 – Great End – 910m

7 – Harrison Stickle – 736m

8 – High Raise – 762m

Leg 4 – Thirlmere to Threlkeld – 18km with 1200m of ascent

9 – Helvellyn – 950m

10 – Clough Head – 726m

Leg 5 – Threlkeld to Keswick – 12km with 850m of ascent

11 – Blencathra – 868m

Participants will need to navigate their own way from peak to peak on foot and feel confident doing so night or day.