14.7km/9.1 miles/5.5-6 hours
Ascent 1050m/3444ft
Vivienne Crow strides out on Fairfield’s alternative round
We’ve all heard of the Fairfield Round, haven’t we? But did you know that there’s another horseshoe that takes in Fairfield? Instead of using Ambleside as its base and approaching the 873m summit from the south, this one starts from Patterdale. It then heads south-west, climbing St Sunday Crag and Cofa Pike on the way up, briefly coinciding with the more popular round as far as Hart Crag and
