A walk, cut short by rain, with Pete from Cadas.Route: leaving the car at the Buttermere NT car park (still half empty on a dismal day) and walking down into the village and left along Mill Beck/Sail Beck stopping to look at perching heron that Pete had spotted in a tree on the far bank. Continuing up the valley and then left onto the hillside and steeply uphill towards the saddle. Deciding in heavier rain that discretion was the better part of valour and so descending to Grassgarth Coppice and round the edge of Great Wood on a muddy track, wet burnt orange bracken soaking our legs, before eventually descending to the road (aiming off the path for a solitary tree and then back down the main rising path). Round the lake shore to the north-east side of Nether How and to the pub for lunch. Then back to the car.
Conditions: low cloud and rain from the start, getting heavier and wind getting up
Pub: the Buttermere Court Hotel for Corby Lakeland Summit and Trooper, San Miguel and a light lunch.
