Route: leaving the car at the Ennerdale car park (at the end of the road) and walking back along the road to a stile and then up hill to the east, forking right to make our way to the summit of Bowness Knot via a narrow undulating path. Then back pathless and climbing a fence to gain Brown How and then the main path next to Rake Beck, a scramble in places. On the plateau turning right to the stony summit of Great Borne. Then via a slightly marshy ridge descending and ascending with no one in sight to the summit of Starling Dodd. Then a similar descent and ascent to Red Pike. Descending via a route marked by cairns SW, becoming a clear path only after a few hundred metres, down into Ennerdale. Then 4km along the stony valley road back to the car.
Conditions: initially hot giving way to cloud with a threat of rain (arriving only once we were in the pub).
Pub: the Fox and Hounds Ennerdale Bridge for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Loweswater Gold and Independent Lakeland Brewerie Entente Cordiale.
