A 9km run round Swinside.Route: leaving the car opposite the Coledale Inn and descending to the centre of the village by a footpath and then along the B5292 to cross the A66 onto the older road to Newlands Beck Bridge. Turning left on an unclear and muddy path round the remains of a wall and then through a gate onto a track back down to the A66. Dog-legging left-right to take the road into Portinscale but turning right onto a private road past substantial houses to rejoin the c-road and then take - for the first time - the Cumbria Way rising across Fawe Park and then on the familiar path to reach and turn right on the drive of Hawse End Outdoor Centre. Taking the c-road past the closed Swinside Inn and right onto a path descending to Newlands Beck. Finding the beck-side path closed (the bank being in a dangerous state), crossing the beck and rising past Uzzicar to the road under Barrow and then taking the initially rising diagonal footpath down to Braithwaite Lodge, down its track and then back to the start.
Conditions: 4C but some sun.
Pub: the Coledale Inn for Corby Blonde.
