Route: leaving the cars at Elterwater (both National Trust car park and the informal parking outside the village), crossing the river and taking the road towards the quarry turning right to follow a path by the river eventually climbing to the quarry view. Then taking a path rising up hill to dog leg left and the right onto the hillside rising into cloud and increasing rain. At the main switch back left, Emma and Nathan turning back leaving the others to reach the summit ridge in heavy rain and cloud and so turning left to drop down into Little Langdale for a pint in the Three Shires. Then heading south along the road to take the track past Wilson Place cottage and farm to return to Elterwater finding Emma and Nathan in Wainwright’s.
Conditions: low cloud and heavy rain.
Pub: the Three Shires, Little Langdale for Loweswater Gold during the walk. No pub after.
