For any visitor to the Kendal Mountain Festival, this is the ideal retreat into the outdoors. These small hills are just to the north of Staveley, a village that is easy to reach by train, bus or car. The walk can be completed in an hour or two, is suitable for all the family, but still feels at times like a proper day in the Lakeland Fells. The three summits have a surprisingly wild feel to them, despite their easy access, and the views stretch from the Yorkshire Dales in the east, to the Coniston Fells and Langdale Pikes in the west.
It's a shame the big cairn (Williamson's Monument) a little further north, isn't in CRoW access land. It's over a decade, but last time I went to look, the route shown in Wainwright's 'Outlying Fells' (High Knott, pg 18) was being 'discouraged'.
Lorraine McCall began her attempt today at a continuous, self-powered round of the Grahams, a four-month tour of upland Scotland combining walking and bikepacking. If successful, she'll be the first person that we know of to do it.
