Skiddaw via Jenkin Hill at Keswick

Skiddaw's simple symmetry appeals to the child in us all. Its form needs no explanation; it is a mountain simple as that, with steep slopes and a summit. It might lack the drama of the great crags of its peers, and its open flanks hold no secrets but who can fail to be drawn by its minimalistic form. It stands statuesque above Keswick and has a comparable impact on the town as the Matterhorn does on Zermatt. From the most ardent mountaineer to the most languid couch potatoes the appeal of this great mountain is uniquely strong.

The most popular route to Skiddaw's wild and open summit is the Jenkin Hill Path. This route was established as a pony route for Victorian tourists and still attracts the greatest number of ascentionists, partly out of habit and partly because it can be started high and if you want a route for your first three thousand foot mountain then you can do no better. It climbs the line of least resistance up the moderate slopes of Jenkin Hill and then reaches the summit via the rounded southeast ridge.

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• Baugh Fell and Knoutberry Hill at Sedbergh
• Borrowdale and Castle Crag at Keswick
• Borrowdale Tour at Keswick
• Burnbank Fell Terrace at Cockermouth
• Buttermere, Crummock Water and Loweswater at Cockermouth
• Caldbeck Fells at Cockermouth
• Calders and Bram Rigg Top at Sedbergh
• Calders, The Calf and Cautley Spout at Sedbergh
• Cautley and Wendale at Sedbergh
• Claife Heights at Ambleside
• Cockermouth to Whinlatter at Cockermouth
• Coledale Round at Keswick
• Coniston Old Man at Coniston
• Coniston Water at Coniston
• Fairfield Horseshoe at Ambleside
• Frostrow Fells and Dent at Sedbergh
• Grasmoor and Rannerdale Knotts at Cockermouth
• Grizedale Forest and Parkamoor at Coniston
• High Pike and the flanks of Great Coum at Sedbergh
• High Spy, Maiden Moor & Cat Bells from Borrowdale at Keswick
• High Stile Range at Cockermouth
• High Sweden Bridge at Ambleside
• Kensgiff and Yarlside at Sedbergh
• Keswick and Glanderaterra Beck at Keswick
• Keswick Cycle Path and Castlerigg Stone Circle at Keswick
• Keswick to Whinlatter Mountain Bike Centre at Keswick
• Lily Tarn and Todd Crag at Ambleside
• Loughrigg Fell at Ambleside
• Mellbreak at Cockermouth
• River Rawthey and River Dee at Sedbergh
• Scandale and Red Screes at Ambleside
• Skiddaw via Longside Edge at Cockermouth
• The Bowder Stone and Watendlath at Keswick
• The Coniston Round at Coniston
• The Coppermines Valley and The Bell at Coniston
• Tour of Binsey at Cockermouth
• Tour of Langdale at Ambleside
• Tour of Loughrigg Fell at Ambleside
• Tour of Low Yewdale at Coniston
• Tour of Sedbergh and Dentdale at Sedbergh
• Tour of Skiddaw at Keswick
• Tour of Tilberthwaite and Tarn Hows at Coniston
• Tour of Yewdale and Tilberthwaite at Coniston
• Troutbeck and Jenkin Crag at Ambleside
• Wansfell Pike at Ambleside
• Watch Hill and River Derwent via Allerdale Ramble at Cockermouth
• Western Shore of Coniston Water at Coniston
• Winder from Sedbergh at Sedbergh
• Yewdale and Tarn Hows at Coniston