5 January 2020

Whitbarrow Scar

A 7km run on the last day of the Christmas holidays.

Route: leaving the car in a lay-by opposite the Lyth Valley Inn and running uphill on a muddy snickleway, forking right and then along a track to reach the green road exiting Row. Turning right then left following a footpath sign but actually then following a track up the field, through a gate and then onto the top of the Scar bending left, past a cairn and over a stile. Here, following a more rocky path roughly parallel with a wall but bending right and climbing to a substantial well built summit cairn. Back-tracking to where a ridge of grike joins the wall and taking a stile to descend, bending left at a fork and then tracking north on sometimes very muddy paths before descending to Row and then back to the outward path.

Conditions: low cloud and drizzle.

Pub: the Lyth Valley Inn for Lakeland Gold.