Route: Leaving the car in a layby on the main road (A591) just after the first Grasmere turn off and walking north along the road to turn right at the Swan Hotel. Part way round a quiet crescent to find a tarmac drive signposted 'Allcock Tarn' rising beside a stream. At the end, bearing left to rise on a paved stone 'staircase' as far as a locked gate into a wood and then, instead, bearing right across the fell to reach the ridge and then up that to Stone Arthur. Then further up the ridge until it was possible to contour round to join the path descending from Great Rigg as far as, and a little beyond, Heron Pike. Then dropping, pathless, down to Alcock Tarn and taking the Victorian track down to Town End and then back to the car.
Conditions: Cloudy with rain showers.
Pub: Tweedies Bar, Grasmere, for a disappointing Rok IPA, Loweswater Gold and Coniston Pilsner.
