Route: leaving the car in the car park by Cartmel Fell Village Hall and running around the church to the right and northwards to the nearby farm before which turning left and following a footpath rising and bending right below Pool Garth after which turning right at an ornamental pond featuring a frog band sculpture (see photo). Down a track and right onto a field and then left at the bottom of the second field to find a level path heading north through damp grass eventually to cross the footbridge over the River Winster to join the road to Bowland Bridge. At the village junction turning left across the bridge and then right onto a footpath through woods and across a field. After a stile, keeping below the woods on through Hollins Farm farmyard and along an enclosed track along the valley floor, often muddy in places, to meet the road near Great Hartbarrow farm. Going left along the road up a steep hill, right at the junction and on until the road swings right after Oaks farm. Taking, instead, the footpath straight on, initially by the wall and then crossing to the other side of the valley and rising to bypass a house and taking a waymarked route across fields to the woodland in Moor How Park. Descending through woodlands to turn left at a footpath T-junction and rising uphill again to the top of the ridge. Then descending on a muddy and stoney path crossing streams and along a boardwalk to meet a path on the left which emerges from the wood, rises over a small shoulder and goes down the meadow, Whinney Knott, with good views over the Winster valley to Whitbarrow, to reach a gate at the bottom right of the field. After 100 yards down the road past Lightwood taking a track on the right for about a mile to join the road after a twisty descent (marred by a motocross event in full flow). Turning right and after 300 yards left onto a footpath just before the road signed Cartmel Fell Church down through the woods to the start.
Conditions: cloudy and some hazy sun but poor visibility.
Pub: the Castle, Kendal, for Loweswater Gold (meeting Paul, Amanda, the kids and friends (Seve, Dave and Steve) after a Kendal urban orienteering event).
