Miles' Wainwright map
I've always loved the Lake District. It's probably my favourite place in the UK (although I do also have a soft spot for
the Yorkshire Dales as the caves there are fantastic and I have spent a lot of time above and below ground).
Years ago I came across the
Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells
by Alfred Wainwright and thought that they were a work of art.
AW described them "as a 'love letter' to the Lakeland fells" and I can see why. They are beautiful and I can't begin to imagine
how much effort was required to write them.
Over the years I have walked up lots of the Lakeland fells but you always end up doing the "popular" fells again and again.
I have lost count how many times I have been in the Langdale Pikes or walked up Helvellyn.
When smart phones and watches came along with apps like
Strava that were able to record your route, I thought it would be great fun to complete all
of the Wainwrights with a record of all the walks on Strava.
In 2018 I started the journey. It didn't matter if I had been up Helvellyn before. If I didn't have proof that I had done it on Strava, it
didn't exist. Then of course everything turned upside down with Covid-19 and everything was put on hold...
Eventually the world came back to normality and I could start in earnest. I started trying to keep a record of which Wainwrights I had completed
and how to go about tackling them.
I got a great book Peak Bagging: Wainwrights which
helped but it quickly became apparent that it would be both useful and fun to be able to see the progress on a map as I was doing it.
I write engineering software for my day job but know very little about
developing web software. I registered a domain name, started playing around and you are now looking at my work in progress...