Route: leaving the car (free at the moment to make amends for the tardy repairs post Storm Desmond) at Dobgill car park and heading north along the road. Initially missing the relevant left turn (looking for a missing stile) but back-tracking to find a steep path heading up past Bank Crags to Brown Rigg. Initially biasing to the north / right but correcting to hit the intervening points of higher ground to reach the summit of Bell Crags. Heading south west downhill to find a path parallel to to a fence across a marsh, luckily partly frozen. Climbing up to the left behind Standing Crag and turning right uphill again to follow the fence before turning left on a marshy path to reach the summit. Descending, pathless, initially a little too far from the edge (ie. too far north) but eventually approaching Nab Crags, past the fine Beacon cairn and then over Birk Crag to Harrop Tarn and down the path to Dobgill car park.
Conditions: cool and over partly frozen marshy ground higher up. A grey day.
Pub: Tweedies Bar, Grasmere for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Loweswater Gold and Brew York Big Eagle IPA.
