Route: Leaving the car at Elterwater and taking the top road towards Chapel Stile to reach the start of the path by Meg's Gill and thence to Spedding Crag and the summit of Silver How. Then pathless over Lang How, Raw Pike, Great Castle How to Blea Rigg. Along the ridge to Sergeant Man and then round the marshy rim of the valley to Thunacar Knott, Harrison Stickle, Pike o' Stickle and Loft Crag. Then down on the west side of Dungeon Gill to Stickle Barn for a quick half and along the Cumbria Way to Wainwright's Inn where we were met by Angie and Alistair.
Conditions: Cool and cloudy but very still on the tops.
Pubs: The Stickle Barn for halves of Barngates Tag Lag and Jennings Tom Fool and later Wainwright's Inn for Hesket Newmarket Loughrigg and Jennings Sneck Lifter.
