A last-minute 7km walk on a very short winter day.
Route: leaving the car on the larger layby by the telephone box beside Loweswater and talking the track uphill to Miresyke and then up to the old fell road. Turning left gaining height to the moorland plateau. At a wide, fenced, straight track, turning right towards Sourfoot Fell, the terrain very wet but easier because frozen. At the end of the fenced section continuing briefly on a track in the grass to its end and then heading in the direction of the summit using sheep tracks, steeply at the end. Descending to find a path to the right/west to the next piece of high ground and then heading in the direction of the summit, crossing a fence and then following parallel to another fence, and then crossing a final one before the fell summit. Here turning left to descend steeply into the comb and take the familiar path back but, for once, taking the upper path at a fork, exploring a tiny subsidiary summit and then descending to the normal tram track to the fell road. Turning right up this and then left on the outward path.Conditions: bright and cold (1C) with clear views. Soggy under foot where not frozen.
Pub? Much later, bottled Ilkley Bewery Mary Christmas and Titanic Plum Porter.
