Route: leaving the car in the empty Felldyke car park and walking towards the reservoir Cogra Moss but turning right before a gate to take a faint path outside the plantation round the hill. After crossing a number of precarious stiles, no very accessible route up the ridge appeared and in the face of increasingly heavy rain, withdrawing. Instead heading along the track to Cogra Moss and to the end where, attacked by midges, giving up (the return path round the Moss being closed because of fallen trees).
Conditions: initially low cloud and drizzly rain becoming heavier. No visibility.
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn for Cumbrian Legendary Ales American Pale Ale and Loweswater Gold and lunch.
