best hill or mountain

ChrisJB · #1 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 08:08 PM

This perhaps should go in the 'walking...forum', but what is everybody's favourite British hill or mountain? This is extremely difficult and I just can't decide as yet. I will watch what you good folks say and maybe it will help me narrow it down. As it is so difficult, you are allowed a maximum of five!

Regards, Chris

Jez · #2 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisJB

This perhaps should go in the 'walking...forum', but what is everybody's favourite British hill or mountain? This is extremely difficult and I just can't decide as yet. I will watch what you good folks say and maybe it will help me narrow it down. As it is so difficult, you are allowed a maximum of five!

Regards, Chris

Quie simply the Presilleys

thunder · #3 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 09:23 PM

No need for discussion or argument - Chanctonbury Hill in Sussex

henrya

Dogghound · #4 (**permalink**) 16-10-2007, 09:26 PM

Ive always liked langdale pike, In the lakes.

Tam · #5 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 09:16 AM

Always enjoyed the views from ben lomond especially coming down ptarmigan ridge
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Pete Collins · #6 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 03:38 PM

Blencathra, in the Lake District has always been one of my favourites. Very distinctive shape, several very good routes to the top, great views. Great name too!

RobSutton · #7 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 04:42 PM

A toss up between Cnicht in Snowdonia or Causey Pike in the Lakes - more to do with happy memories rather than the hills themselves even though they are beautiful in their own right.

russj1975 · #8 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 05:15 PM

For the view from, it has to be Pen Yr Ole Wen, in Snowdonia for me, though my fave actual mountain?? well it would be a toss up between Y Garn in Snowdonia, or Kinder Scout. I love the bleakness of Kinder, but Y Garn is just a beautiful mountain to look at, and to climb.

moo · #9 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 05:44 PM

Loughrigg, near Ambleside
cracking views, many paths all over so somewhere quiet even in summer, and a secluded tarn full of dragonflies. And it's very small

ChrisJB · #10 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Collins

Blencathra, in the Lake District has always been one of my favourites. Very distinctive shape, several very good routes to the top, great views. Great name too!

Weather (and missus) permitting, I shall be putting this to the test in a couple of weeks. From various directions, it certainly looks the best in the Lake District.

I'm still pondering my favourites by the way!

Regards, Chris

Garden Carpet · #11 (**permalink**) 17-10-2007, 08:45 PM

Shillow Hill in Cambs... I really enjoy being there.
Jaki

ron1863 · #12 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 11:48 AM

I think the best hill is the one you are nearest to and is easily accessible. I live below the Campsie Fells and love them

badger426 · #13 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 03:13 PM

Brecon Beacons, no contest.

ChrisJB · #14 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 04:10 PM

I prefer moors to mountains really, so on a local scale I'm going for Blackstone Edge (SE Lancs), whilst further afield, either Penyghent or the great colossus, Cross Fell.

Regards, Chris

galanthus · #15 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by badger426

Brecon Beacons, no contest.

Yep beacons for me too, especially Corn Ddu. lovely

seamusagleann · #16 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 04:56 PM

to me it has to be the one in my "back garden"...beinn a' bheithir (ben vare)

ChrisJB · #17 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by seamusagleann

to me it has to be the one in my "back garden"...beinn a' bheithir (ben vare)

Now you're just showing off!

Regards, Chris

seamusagleann · #18 (**permalink**) 18-10-2007, 07:43 PM

....and this is my "front garden"....sorry chris

ChrisJB · #19 (**permalink**) 19-10-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by seamusagleann

....and this is my "front garden"....sorry chris

Talk about salt being rubbed into the wound!

You'll need one hell of a lawnmower for that!

Regards, Chris

coasty · #20 (**permalink**) 19-10-2007, 02:35 PM

Favourite Hill for memories Rosebury Topping in Cleveland. Favourite Mountain Sergeant Man in lakes,,, View over the tarn is amazing,,,,

rlchew · #21 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 08:18 AM

seamusagleann must be banned for upsetting a fellow WAB member .... talk about making me envious and jealous with those views from home

My faves .... all in the Scottish Highlands hence my jealousy!

Suilven (Assynt)

An Teallach (Wester Ross)

Black Cuillins (Skye)

Quinag (Assynt)

Liathach (Torridon)

Plus loads more but I was only allowed 5!!

My least fave ....

"Bread and Cheese" hill in Benfleet, Essex .... so named bcause of the pub at the top of the hill after which it is named and not very nice becasue it means I am approaching my place of work (the office .... not the pub

).

Richard

DaiTheDragon · #22 (**permalink**) 20-10-2007, 11:08 AM

Brecon Beacons, especially on the decent.

Dai

genuinita · #23 (**permalink**) 15-12-2007, 12:37 PM

always thought buachaille etive mor in glencoe was the most impressive looking (with a bit of snow on top)... but most fun is tryfan in N wales

Nicola Main · #24 (**permalink**) 15-12-2007, 02:10 PM

Seamus I'm on the next train up

tufftie · #25 (**permalink**) 17-12-2007, 07:38 AM

Mine are two hills, that as far as i can see don't have names; the hill that leads up to Yesnaby stack in Orkney and the hill that leads up from the bottom of Cot Valley, Cornwall (part of the coastal path) - both are quiet and have stunning views