Route: From the small car park east of the pub at Scales, a short steep ascent before contouring round the bottom of Blencathra to Hall's Fell, an ascent sticking to the very top of the ridge and then down Scales Fell to Mousthwaite Comb and back to the car. (Plans to add Bannerdale Crags will have to wait.)
Conditions: Cloud and some sun giving way to rain.
Pub: The Agricultural Hotel in Penrith, oddly enough, for fine Sneck Lifter.
