Route: from the car park at Brothers Water taking the lakeside path into Dovedale, crossing the stream on a footbridge and rising besides waterfalls. At a wall corner, turning off the main path to follow the wall across the hillside, descending slightly. Where the wall turns downhill, following an obvious but steep grassy slope up onto the ridge of Stand Crags and following this across Dovedale to reach the ridge from Little Hart Crag and thence up to the summit of Dove Crag. Along to Hart Crag and down Hartsop above How to find the steep path descending directly to the car park.
Conditions: dry and very windy and cold on the summit ridge.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for Hawkshead Windermere Pale, Bitter, Gold, Five Hop and NZPA!
