The Great Outdoors

Howgill Fells Cumbria ENGLAND

Ian Battersby’s fine circuit uses parts of two longdistance paths

UST AS ALL ROADS lead to Rome, all paths lead to The Calf–or at least that seems to be the way of things in the Howgill Fells. Here The Calf forms a natural hub connecting ridges that radiate out into Cumbria and thus the world. The fells here form an intimate huddle of high, rounded grassy hilltops, with slender flanks sweeping into

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