Places
Somewhere in particular, and why you would go there to do a thing. These carry area character, the access position and how to arrive — and no routes, no distances and no ascent figures, because there is no source for them we would stand behind.
John H Darch / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Hiking · Mid and south Wales
Bannau Brycheiniog
Big, open, grassy hills with steep northern faces and very long views — walkable in a day from most of south Wales, and serious in bad weather.
Character, access and how to arrive · no routes
Peter Mulligan from United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Wild camping · Highland and Aberdeenshire, Scotland
The Cairngorms
Britain’s largest national park, and the one place where wild camping is a right rather than a tolerance — high, cold, sub-arctic ground with almost no shelter.
Character, access and how to arrive · no routes
Alan O'Dowd / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Scrambling · North-west Wales
Eryri
Rough volcanic ridges where most British scramblers learn what they are doing — rock that is grippy, broken, and unforgiving of a wrong turn.
Character, access and how to arrive · no routes
Peer Lawther from Leeds, United Kingdom / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Fell running · Cumbria, north-west England
The Lake District
The home ground of the sport, where the races are old, the entry fees are small, and the ground has almost nothing in common with a road or a trail.
Character, access and how to arrive · no routes
Why there are so few. A hub is worth a page when there is something to say about an area that is not on its activity page already, when the access position can be established from an authority we can reach, and when photographs of that actual place exist and are lawfully reusable. Two more areas were researched for this set and neither was published: one because no lawful photograph of the activity there could be found, and one because the National Park Authority’s own site could not be reached to verify. Mega Sprint 30 measured what it would take to add routes to any of these and found no authoritative, lawfully reusable source, so these pages carry the parts that need none, and say so.