High Spy

A very wet, truncated, walk with Robin.

Route: Leaving the car parked in a layby in Grange and taking a path opposite the Borrowdale Gates Hotel to rise on a clear route to the top of Cockley How to find the drove road above Nitting Haws. Then up a damp path in a wide grassy amphitheatre to meet the ridge path (from Maiden Moor) and on to the summit cairn. In heavier wind and rain, down to the saddle above Rigghead and then descending a made path to join the Allerdale Ramble route back past Castle Crag and thence to Grange.

Conditions: Initial showers and then persistent rain and strong wind.

Pub: The King's Head at Thirlspot for Cocker Hoop and Sneck Lifter.

Barbon Low Fell

A wet post-lunch walk with Mike and Janet Hornby circuiting Barbon Low Fell.

Route: Leaving the pub at Barbon for a woodland walk by Barbon Beck, crossing it at a footbridge to backtrack down the road before taking a bridleway to Bullpot Farm and then briefly joining a road. Leaving that for a higher parallel path from which a brief diversion on a grassy path led to the summit, and then down to join a green road (Fellfoot Road) laterally back before a short road walk back into Barbon.

Conditions: Initial cloud and then persistent rain.

Pub: Barbon Inn for Ruskin's Bitter (and lunch) before the walk.