The Great Outdoors

3 Steeple from Ennerdale

21.8km/13.5 miles/7 hours

Ascent 1024m/3360ft

Lake District ENGLAND

1 Start/Finish

Bowness Knott car park

GR NY109153

Turn L from car park and walk along forest road for 2.7km.

2 Turn R on broad track. Enter forest and turn L.

3 About 180m after Woundell Beck bridge – just before gate across track – you’ll see two paths on R. Take the one climbing steeply S through firebreak.

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