August 8th – Finsthwaite Heights Society Walk
The M.V. Teal was taken from Bowness down Windermere to Lakeside from where the group headed to Finsthwaite Tower, Finsthwaite and High Dam….
The Wainwright Society
The inaugural meeting of The Wainwright Society was held on 9th November 2002 at Ambleside Youth Hostel. This was followed by a walk to the summit of Dove Crag, the walk described on the first page of The Eastern Fells penned by AW fifty years earlier.
The primary aims of the Society are to keep alive the fellwalking traditions promoted by Alfred Wainwright through his guidebooks and other publications and to keep faith with his vision of introducing a wider audience to fellwalking and caring for the hills.
The aims of the Society are articulated through its Objects, which underpin all the Society’s activities. These have included, the purchase of the Wainwright Notebook, annotated maps, sketches and other written material, which have been donated to the Cumbria Archive Centre in Kendal, the replacement of the View Indicator on Orrest Head, support for the Wainwright Exhibition at Keswick Museum and the re-publication of out-of-print books written by Wainwright. The Society has, over the years, raised many thousands of pounds for causes which we believe Wainwright would have appreciated and supported.
The Eastern Fells, Dove Crag, p 6
AW’s first ascent route drawn on 9th November 1952 – the ascent of Dove Crag from Ambleside.
Credit: Photograph of Alfred Wainwright (c) Derry Brabbs
Drawing above is from The Southern Fells, Scafell p. 9