A 10km run to see the bluebells on the Tuesday after the first May bank holiday.Route: leaving the car at the car park for Grasmoor at Lanthwaite Green Farm and taking the better path slightly north and east, to avoid directly crossing marshier ground, to gain the higher lateral path below Grasmoor. Running along this descending at the end to near the first car park, crossing the stream and continuing to the bluebell area. Stopping here to take photographs of bluebells at their peak. Then continuing part way up Rannerdale to reach the footbridge to cross the stream and walk round the end of the Knotts to take the pitched path (gaining 255m altitude) from the road to the summit of Rannerdale Knotts. Running along the summit ridge to the end and then turning left to the gradual descent into Rannerdale again reaching the bluebells and continuing to the car park and across the road. Turning right to take the upper path just inside the wall dividing it from the road to its end at some trees and then running slowly for 300m along the road to the car park.
Conditions: initial sun though none for bluebell photography. Then cloudy and humid but the threatened rain not arriving.
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater, for a quiet noon pint of Esthwaite Bitter.
