Hill Walking
Lakeland hill walking holidays - Wasdale Screes.
Highland cow - remote walks on the Isle of Rum, Scotland.
Lakes - Skelwith Bridge - low level day walks.
The British Isles have a wonderful diversity of stunning and inspiring places to enjoy a quiet moment on a low level country stroll, or a take your breath away mountain moment. There is truly something for everyone.
We offer a full range of guided services to many of this country's remote and highest upland scenery, through many of our guided excursions.
Whether it's the rolling moors of the Yorkshire Dales; the Peak District with its grit stone escarpments; the rugged mountain peaks of Snowdonia; the beauty and poetic nature of the Lake District; or the high drama of Scotland, there is sure to be something you'll love.
We are keen to provide a wide range of options and have included a number of classic high ridge walks, lower walks and more challenging longer walks to tempt you.
Our walking guides are keen to share with you a wealth of knowledge on how these places were formed, their geology, flora and fauna, and how the landscape has evolved and has been shaped by the generations of people that have lived there.
We have a wide range of hill walking skills courses and short adventure breaks which will enable you to develop and improve your confidence to explore these areas safely.
If you have something different in mind, or would like to discuss a different itinerary for yourself or your group, we are more than happy to do this on a private guided basis.
Courses
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Literally on our doorstep, the Peak District National Park offers us a varied landscape for short weekend hill walking breaks and guided day walks. We offer a number of walking routes based on the fringes of the Northern Moors of the Peak District and along some of the best wind swept edges this area has to offer.
The high moors of The Dark Peak rise to more than 2000 feet, the highest hill being Kinder Scout at 2088ft (636 metres). The tops of these high moors are covered in a thick blanket of "peat". Streams and rivers have carved deep channels through the peat and down to the bedrock. The area is infamous with walkers for its peak bogs and can be a very barren and desolate place in the full depths of winter.
The White Peak, in comparison, is a place of complete contrast with its small attractive villages, its tradition of well-dressing and network of well-established tracks and trails.
- 1 Day to 2 Days in duration
- Cost 1 day at £60 per person / 2 days at £120 per person
- Upgrade to a residential option available
Please check our course calendar.
The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is another popular hill walking area we regularly visit. It is one of our most popular destinations, and is famous for its stunning mountain ranges (or fells), and for the writings of William Wordsworth and the Lake Poets. Amongst hill walkers Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991) will always be known for his famous Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, which he compiled between 1952 and 1966.
We offer a wide range of guided low level and high mountain walks, in some cases even in the footsteps of Wainwright himself. No experience is required and with walks as good as these you are spoilt for choice and fantastic views.
- 1 Day to 2 Days in duration
- Cost 1 day at £60 per person / 2 days at £120 per person
- Upgrade to a residential option available.
Snowdon, Tryfan, the Carneddau, and the Glyders are all within 90 minutes of our base. All these mountain ranges offer you an amazing array of hill walking and scrambling opportunities. We aim to keep our options fairly open and explore with you as many of these rugged and enthralling mountains from some of the quieter and less travelled ways to reach these summits.
- 1 Day, 2 Day and 5 Day durations
- Cost 1 day at £60 per person / 2 days at £120 per person / 5 Days £300
- Upgrades to residential options available.
Glencoe
The area of Fort William and Lochaber is a huge tract of upland covering more than 4,864 square kilometres of the Scottish West Highlands. Fort William is the capital town by the foot of Ben Nevis - the highest mountain in the UK. We offer you a week of hill walking, savouring the delights of some of the very best mountain scenery to be found anywhere in the world. "The Highlands" and your first Munro or Scottish mountain over 3000 feet or 914 metres is a very special experience. They are named after Sir Hugh Munro who first catalogued them in 1891. There are 284 Munros across Scotland.
Munros in Glencoe
Bidean Nam Bian (1150m), Stob Coire Sgreamhach (1072m), Sgurr nam Fiannaidh (967m), Meall Dearg (953m), Stob na Broige (956m), Stob Dearg (1022m), Stob Coire Rainneach (925m) and Stob Dubh (958m).
- 5 Days duration
- £435
- Residential option only
Want to get away from the pressures of modern living?
At Ace Outdoors we love nothing more than the wild camping experience to get maximum enjoyment in the mountains knowing that we can make camp, pitch our tents and watch the sun go down without the worry most people have about being out in the mountains after dark. This really is what cool camping is all about. Wild camping or camping away from a regular camp site carrying everything to be completely self sufficient, for a multi day trip, can be added to most of our regular hill walking itineraries as a group camping activity or as a separate backpacking course (in both summer and winter conditions). We are also members of the Mountain Bothy Association and can use other types of basic buildings as part of our expeditions planning.
See Winter Snow Shelter course and Bushcraft - family adventures.
- 2 Days duration
- Maximum ratio 1:6
- £ 175 per person (includes hire of all camping equipment and food)
- Residential option only
We offer a number of lowland guided circular half-day walks, in and around Manchester, to the West Pennines, Cheshire and Lancashire. We can provide night navigation activities in the High Peak / Peak District.
- 1 half day option usually (10.00-13.00) Night Navigation (17.30-22.00)
- Day Walks from £25 per person and £30.00 Night Navigation
- Non residential only
Normal Operating Ratios and Walking Grades
Our ratios often depend on factors such as the venue or the location where we are working, the overall experience of the group, time of year and the weather. Standard ratios for hill walking are set out below, to give you an idea of typical staffing ratios that are consistent with best practice in the industry.
- Level 1 terrain up to 14 participants per leader
- Level 2 terrain up to 12 participants per leader
- Level 3 terrain up to 8 participants per leader
- Level 4 terrain up to 6 participants per leader
For more information on the difficulty of our walks please see our walking grade sheet.
Dates
For dates see our course calendar.
