Here are the best mountains you can climb to earn your perfect post-walk pint says Trail magazine's Claire Maxted.

We stole your best post-walk beer ideas from the Trail forum and whispered them into the ears of the brewers at Great Gable Brewing Co. at the Wasdale Head Inn.

They turned your perfect pint droolings into reality; a refreshing, low alcohol Trail Ale to re-invigorate you after a day stomping up and down the Wasdale mountains. Earn one, or several perfect post-walk pints, by knocking off these routes. Each of these corkers finishes at the Inn and 50p from every pint goes to mountain rescue.

The Classic...

Start The Old Dungeon Ghyll NY296061.

Climb Scafell Pike (978m/3209ft) from Langdale, a 14km/8.6mile hillwalkers' classic.

Which way? Take the Cumbria Way up Mickleden and Rosset Gill, past Angle Tarn to Esk Hause to pick up the path that climbs Broad Crag to reach England's highest mountain from the north-east. Descend via the Lingmell Col and Brown Tongue to Wasdale.

Drink your Trail Ale slowly. This gives you time to perfect your, "I deserve every last slurp as I've just climbed England's highest mountain," look.

The Packhorse...

Start The Old Dungeon Ghyll NY296061.

Climb Sty Head (488m/1600ft), 12km/7.5miles over the hub of ancient Cumbrian trade routes.

Which way? Walk in the hoofprints of the beasts that carried slate from Langdale valley to Esk Hause, past Sprinkling Tarn to Sty Head and down to your pint via Lingmell Beck below Great Gable. By bike this route is fantastic, but physically and technically tough, so not for the inexperienced.

Drink your Trail Ale with a quizzacle frown. How many poor tradesmen were denied the taste of Trail Ale after this long trek?

The Mixer...

Start Seathwaite NY235122.

Climb Great Gable (899m/2949ft), an 8km/5mile walk that gives you the best view in the Lake District.

Which way? Intrepid group members can scramble from Grades 1-3 up Sourmilk Gill while the rest walk its path to the south. All meet to bag Green then Great Gable to ogle the Lakes' best view from Westmorland Cairn NY211102 near the summit, then down to Wasdale via Beckhead Tarn.

Drink your Trail Ale quickly. As per group walking rule number 153: Last walker to finish buys the next round.

The Rock Icon...

Start Bowness NY109153.

Climb Pillar (892m/2926ft) via climbers' icon Pillar Rock in 13km/8miles.

Which way? Walk or bike along Ennerdale Water and River Liza through forest to the foot of Pillar Rock for Grade 3 scramblers and rock climbers or take the easier route to Pillar's summit over White Pike to its north-west, then down Mosedale valley to the Inn from Black Sail Pass to the east.

Drink your Trail Ale with glee. Seeing or climbing Pillar Rock and celebrating in the Wasdale Head Inn is what the 19th century mountaineering pioneers would have done.

The Horseshoe...

Start The Wasdale Head Inn NY187085.

Climb The Mosedale Horseshoe, the 19km/12mile quintessential Wasdale round.

Start by bagging Yewbarrow (628m/2060ft) from the south west, whose mountain stream ends up in your pint, then follow on with Red Pike (826m/2710ft), Scoat Fell (841m/2759ft), Pillar (892m/2926ft), Kirk Fell (802m/2631ft), and if you're feeling really hardcore, Great Gable (899m/2949ft) too before dropping back down to Wasdale.

Drink your Trail Ale with a smug grin. Five to six mountains in one day? You deserve as many pints we say.

The Scramble...

Start The National Trust car park NY182075.

Climb Whin Rigg (535m/1755ft), Illgill Head (609m/1998ft) and scramble The Screes on this 16km/10miler.

Perfect your sideways scrambling technique over the The Screes, 5km of ankle-twisting, hand-grazing path at the bottom of a boulder-choked slope that ascends steeply to Whin Rigg and Illgill Head, then down Straighthead Gill to the Inn.

Drink your Trail Ale down in one. You'll need instant hydration after scrambling The Screes.

Warning...

Drinking and driving/walking/map reading is asking for mountain rescue related embarrassment, so sup sensibly, sleep it off, then follow the route back to whence you came.

Best Wasdale Sleeps...

The Barn Door campsite and shop. Very handy for the pub and last minute gear purchases - tel. (019467) 26384 Murt Camping Barn - tel. (019467) 758198.

The Wasdale Head Inn. The Alpine Club used to holiday here, hotel rooms and self catering available - tel. (019467) 26384 National Trust campsite - tel. 0870 548 4000 YHA Wastwater. An ancient house on the Wast Water's shores - tel. 0870 770 6083.

Check out www.wasdaleweb.co.uk for more accommodation, events and webcams.