A 11.5km solitary walk (T, L having coffee with Sue B in Grasmere).Route: hitching a lift from Lois as far as the south end of High Rigg near Bridge End Farm on the A591 (at St John’s Beck). Taking a gate by a broken stile on the right and soon taking a smaller path left uphill, to reach Wren Crag and then following the main summit path, spurning some higher subsidiary summits and rising and falling eventually, 2km later, to reach the summit of High Rigg. Descending north, though taking a path to the left, west, so as to avoid the steeper direct descent. Near the youth centre taking a path towards Low Rigg but finding the wall before the summit rebuilt, following the demands of conscience and turning aside to descend, crossing a marsh, to reach the main path, over a stile and then down past cows to Tewet Tarn.
At the road turning left down the road to find a run-down permissive path to a damp tunnel under the A66, descending then to reach the Keswick railway path and heading left along it to Keswick and the Dog and Gun (later meeting Lois for a lift home).
Conditions: a cloudy misty day, seeming to exacerbate initial road noise from the A591.
Pub: Dog and Gun, Keswick, for Theakstons Old Peculier.
