A fantastic challenge trip, swimming across the lakes of the Western Lake District – That’s 7 lakes in 2 days: are you ready to accept the challenge? This is a fully organised trip for energetic & enthusiastic swimmers, accompanied by swim guides, safety cover and your very own luxury swim bus. [...]
An epic adventure swim to one of Ullswater’s more intriguing features – Devil’s Chimney, plus some of the less visited islands of Ullswater. This is one of our longer day swims at 4-5 km and is a great swimming adventure for fit and experienced open water swimmers. More Info [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one day the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The perfect introduction to open water swimming for beginners. [...]
There is no better place in the Lake District to indulge our obsession with swimming around islands than Derwentwater. This is a challenging but manageable wild swim with an island every 7-800 meters or so where we can pause to regroup and take in the views. Includes: Fully guided swim, a lovely swim cap [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one day. A dry land and water based course based at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The [...]
The Windermere Swim Hike is a fun but challenging trip around and into the North Basin of Windermere. The relaxed hike to our swim get-in takes us past the Roman fort of Galava and through some lovely, low level countryside with great views of the lake along the way. The swim that follows is [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one half day in the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The perfect introduction to open water swimming for [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one morning. A dry land and water based course, based at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The [...]
There is no better place in the Lake District to indulge our obsession with swimming around islands than Derwentwater. This is a challenging but manageable wild swim with an island every 7-800 meters or so where we can pause to regroup and take in the views. Includes: Fully guided swim, a lovely swim cap [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one day. A dry land and water based course based at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one half day at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The perfect introduction to open water swimming for [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one day. A dry land and water based course based at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one day. A dry land and water based course based at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one half day at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The perfect introduction to open water swimming for [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one half day at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The perfect introduction to open water swimming for [...]
Want to get into open water swimming? This course is for you, we make it easy for you to get in the water and start swimming outdoors. From no-idea to no-fear in one day. A dry land and water based course based at the heart of the best wild swimming in the country. The [...]
So you’ve been meaning to get into open water swimming and you just don’t know where to start? It’s not always obvious and if you don’t live near the sea or any lakes you may have to do a bit of research first. Here are our top 5 tips on how to get into open water swimming.
The Utterly Buttermere Swim is in its second year and is already an essential feature on the connoisseur open swimmer's event calendar. Within the first few days of opening we had over 100 entries and the event is now half full. This is an astonishing feat accomplished by a swim in the north west [...]
Always first into the water when it comes to outdoor swimming, we've just towelled ourself dry from our first "Introduction to Open Water Swimming in the Lake District" course and here's how it went...
The Great North Swim 2011 in Windermere has been the biggest open water swimming event in the UK, an awesome achievement on behalf of the organisers and for each and everyone who took part, amazing. The setting, Windermere is also what makes it amazing, the views of the Lake District fells from the [...]
