A walk on an improving day with Jake and his father Lisle.
Route: leaving the car at the NT car park (hence free) and taking the lakeside path to the diagonal pitched path past Old Burtness, out of the wood and onto the still steep hillside to reach Bleaberry Tarn and then past the pitching to a loose steep path into cloud before the summit. Attempting to take the NW path down Lincombe Edge but becoming disorientated in cloud and finding ourselves further west than intended and finding the turn right at a T-junction down fenceposts counter-intuitive. This, however, turning out to be correct, emerging from the cloud on a broad shoulder before descending on an obvious path by Scale Beck, washed away in part, (while being overtaken by the 3 leading runners in the Darren Holloway Memorial Fell Race on their way over to Mellbreak and back to Loweswater) and then along a path above Crummock Water and then back to Buttermere.Conditions: dark threatening cloud over head and cloud shrouding the summit (hence navigational confusion) but sunny when back at the pub.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, for Jennings Cocker Hoop.
