2008 |
Coniston Water - The 2nd Lake |  |
| Home | ||
| Three Peaks Challenge | ||
| Ben Nevis (Scotland) | ||
| Scafell Pike (England) | ||
| Snowdon (Wales) |
| Three Lakes Challenge | ||
| Lake Windermere | ||
| Coniston Water | ||
| Ullswater | ||
| Kayak or Open Canoe? |
| Lake District 3000 Footers | ||
| Scafell Pike (3208 ft / 978 m) | ||
| Scafell (3164 ft / 964 m) | ||
| Helvellyn (3118 ft / 950 m) | ||
| Skiddaw (3054 ft / 931 m) |
| Lakeland Ultimate Challenges | ||
| Mountain Run / Jog or Walk | ||
| Kayak or Canoe | ||
| Mountain Bike |
| Yorkshire 3 Peaks | ||
| Ingleborough (2373 ft / 723 m) | ||
| Pen-y-Ghent (2278 ft / 694m) | ||
| Whernside (2311ft / 736m) |
| Himalayan Adventures | ||
| Everest Basecamp Trek | ||
| Island Peak Climb | ||
| Everest Abseil Challenge |
| Open Lakeland Challenges | ||
| Peaks Challenge | ||
| Derwentwater Paddle Challenge | ||
| Lake District Triathlon |
| 'C2C' Mountain Bike Challenges | ||
| Coast2Coast 24 Hour Challenge | ||
| Coast to Coast + Scafell Pike | ||
| Multi-Activity C2C Challenge |
| Why Do A '3' Challenge? | ||
| Charity | ||
| Corporate | ||
| Because We Want To |
3 Challenges - 18 Cawflands - Durdar - Carlisle - Cumbria - CA2 4UH - 01228 521276 |
|
email: office@3peakchallenge.co.uk |
|
|
Coniston Water |
||||
Coniston Water is the third largest of the lakes. It provided an important fish source for the monks of Furness Abbey who owned the lake and much of the surrounding land in the 13th and 14th Centuries. More recently Coniston Water was used to transport slate and ore from the many mines worked in the Coppermines Valley above Coniston village. The Victorian philosopher John Ruskin bought Brantwood house to the east of the lake in 1871 declaring the view over the lake to 'The Old Man of Coniston' to be 'the best in all of England' |
 |
|||
Coniston Water is the shortest lake in the Three Lakes Challenge and it is paddled as the second leg. The lake presents commanding views of the Coniston Fells which rise steeply behind the village of Coniston. Coniston Water offers the paddler with a lovely paddle along the Eastern shoreline from our start point at the Northeast tip of the lake to the southern end past Brantwood. Coniston Water was the scene of Donald Campbell's ill-fated World Water Speed Record attempt on 4th January 1967 and only in recent years the remaining wreckage was discoverd. |
||||
 |
||||