Route: Leaving the car in the Broadgate Meadow car park (£5 for 4 hours) to take the Easedale Road past Lancrigg vegetarian B&B and then the standard route up Helm Crag using the recent Fix the Fells repitching work, with Derek reaching the actual summit on top of the rocks. A descent to the saddle and then taking the route west to drop down a steep, loose and damp but mainly grassy path with some grumbling from the troops.
Conditions: Cloudy with a short shower at the start of the descent. Afterwards (viewed from the pub window): torrential rain.
Pub: Tweedies Bar, Grasmere, for Celt Experience, Golden Ale; Hardknott Brewery, Axial Tilt and Cumbrian Legendary Ales, Langdale (and lunch).
