Up them mountains!!!

[unfazed]

So what do you guys do about getting to the start of your walk? I'm trying to find a place in Cumbria, but won't be able to afford a house slap bang in the Lake District, so hopefully can get on a good bus route in somewhere. I wouldn't mind parking the car somewhere for a day walk, but what when you do longer and camp out overnight? I guess it's probably a bit emptier/safer up in the Highlands for leaving your car?

Pick a place on the opposite side like around Wast Water, like Eskdale, you will have Scafell, Pillar great Gable, Hard Knot and Hard Knot pass on your door step, it also has some of the hardest rock climbing routes in the UK.

Only down side is Sellafield is also on your doorstep. :'(

I always believed there is far more natural beauty on the Wast Water side of the lake district.