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. Descending north west on a scree path to turn right at a T-junction down fenceposts perhaps 100m from Lingcomb Edge on a broad shoulder before descending - here the party splitting - on an obvious path by Scale Beck, still washed away in part, and then along a path above Crummock Water and then back to Buttermere (Tim and Alex arriving about 45 minutes ahead of the others..
Conditions: initially dry but giving way to light rain for most of the rest of the day.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, for Tractor Shed Mowdy Pale.
