Route: from the National Trust carpark in Elterwater taking the road through the quarry (pausing to look at the quarry from the new viewpoint), doglegging left right across the road beyond to join a track rising gradually and diagonally to the ridge and along, eventually, to the summit. Scrambling down to the saddle and taking the narrow path to Fat Man's Agony beyond the kissing gate and then onto Side Pike. Down the Fix the Fells zig-zagging path to find a short cut right before the bottom to cross to the Cumbria Way and along this back to the quarry road.
Conditions: eerily still, cloudy. Few walkers.
Pub: (joined by Lois) the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for WPA, Gold, Brodie's Prime, Five Hop and - weirdly - keg NZPA.
