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The Keswick Mountain Festival Drawing Competition

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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Winners Announced Over the last few months The Keswick Mountain Festival and The Cumberland Pencil Museum have been running a Drawing Competition, open to all ages of artists. We invited artists to share with us an image of, Keswick The Outdoor Capital of Britain, and The Cumberland Pencil Museum, the home of Derwent Fine Art Pencils. We are thrilled [...]

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Adventure Travel Magazine Competition

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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Justine Jones is the lucky winner of the Keswick Mountain Festival Competition that has been running in the Adventure Travel Magazine, sponsored by New Balance. Justine wins: - Entry into the Open 5+ Adventure Race at the Keswick Mountain Festival - £200pp of New Balance Apparel - Accommodation at the Kings Head Hotel in Keswick Congratulations to Justine and good [...]

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TGO Magazine Competition

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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Entry to this competition is now closed. The lucky winner is Mike Smart with the winning answer: Sir Chris Bonington is the Patron of Keswick Mountain Festival Congratulations to Mike who has won: A choice of 5 pairs of tickets to attend special Festival talks with any of our speakers. A tour of Jennings Brewery in Cockermouth. An Ordnance Survey rucksack [...]

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Win the North Face Ruck Sack

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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The North Face have kindly donated the Borealis ruck sack to one of our lucky clients who books their Keswick Mountain Festival Activities online! 

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Jig on Latrigg with Good Taste

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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A UNIQUE chance to dine out on TOP of Latrigg is planned for Keswick Mountain Festival on Wednesday 13 May 2009 at 7.30pm.  Sixty people will sit down for dinner on one of Keswick’s best-loved fells and enjoy panoramic views over Derwent Water.

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Keswick Mountain Festival goes Accessible

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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For the first time ever, Keswick Mountain Festival is proud to be able to offer exciting and adventurous activities that have been specifically designed for people with physical, sensory and/or learning disabilities. We are teaming up with The Lake District Calvert Trust to make sure that climbing, abseiling, canoeing and sailing are now accessible to [...]

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Walks with Salomon

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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If you haven’t already signed up for one of the Salomon walks you’d better be quick as places are running out! It’s no wonder too, as every walker will get the chance to test Salomon’s brand new hiking boots, the Cosmic 4D GTX.

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Classic Rock

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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We asked Nick Jones from More than Mountains - What is your favourite type of climbing? I always go for long multi-pitch routes in the mountains.  When climbing this type of route it would be impossible to carry a rope long enough to reach the top so it is necessary for the leader to stop at [...]

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Nordic Walking – What’s that?

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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If you like to walk and talk – Nordic Walking is for you.  Read on and find out more!

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Mountain Sense log book

Friday, April 24th, 2009
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Mountain Sense is an organisation providing mountain safety training and fund-raising challenge events. A little over 4 months ago now, in response to the growing number of mountain accidents in the Lake District, we launched a mountain safety awareness campaign here in Keswick.

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