Route: leaving the car at the car park at Woodend Brow (optional donation) and crossing the A66 to turn left / north on a gravel path immediately by the road. For the first 400m or so, struggling with the overgrown conditions but things improving thereafter (and fine after Beck Wythop). Continuing, sometimes lower than the road, sometimes beside it to some step at GR206307.
Crossing the still divided carriageway where a filtering road allows traffic to cross the A66 and then turning left on the side road towards the Pheasant Inn. After 100m turning left uphill on paths, now at a walk, across one track and then left on the next, descending slightly from the next junction. Then a lengthy gradual climb, againing walking, before descending and then turning eft off the track onto a path to Beck Wythop and along the now disused road back to the start.
Conditions: cloudy but muggy hot and with little breeze.
Pub: the Pheasant Inn, for Jennings Back Yam.