16 September 2023

Balcony Path under Burnbank Fell and Carling Knott


A 9km walk with Anne and Frank.

Route: leaving the car at noon at the layby near the phone box at Waterend and talking the path down across fields and up to Hudson Place turning right to pass Jenkinson Place, slowly ascending a track onto the shoulder of the hillside. Taking a sharp left rising in the direction of Burnbank Fell but then left to descend on the obvious coffin route. After crossing Holme Beck, ignoring the left turn into the wood and continuing on the balcony path to its end, descending to and through High Nook Farm. Just after this, turning left through an unmarked handgate to join a permissive path through fields to Watergate Farm and then back along the lakeshore to the start.

Conditions: dry, cloudy above but cloud lifting off the fells.

Pub: The Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater, for American Pale and Loweswater Gold (later pizza at Fermento and a Chris Wood gig at the Kirkgate Centre).