A 9.5km run, then jog then walk, taking the overgrown balcony path, on Lois’ birthday.Route: leaving the car at the Briathwaite Hall in Far Sawrey (£2), pausing to look at changes to Firbank (the entry has moved! the slates are clean!) and running along Cuckoo Brow Lane past Moss Eccles Tarn and Wise Een Tarn, slowly uphill (stopping for the first walk) to reach trees and descend a single-track path past what remains of Hollin Band Plantation.
Straight across at a crossroads to continue on a single-track path descending a disturbing amount to a junction signed back to Far Sawrey. By this point walking because of an overheating T (though only 20C) and increasingly overgrown paths. (On reflection, this would never be a running path in bracken season.) Diverting right to the summit trig point and then continuing for another 1km of overgrown path before things clearing and a familiar return to the track between Fir Bank and the Cuckoo Brow.
Later a short expedition to look, for the first time, at the Claife Viewing Station.
Conditions: not really that hot but little breeze.
Pub: Cuckoo Brow Inn for Tirril Windermere IPA and iffy Hawkshead Red.
