Route: from Greenside, Kendal, taking Serpentine Road to the tramway and along this to climb and cross the golf course before heading, past Highland cattle, over the bypass and on up to the cairn on Cunswick Scar. Then back, descending in the direction of the Scout Scar transmitter onto the broad saddle past gorse, hawthorn and rabbits before a lengthy but gradual climb, staying between 50m and 50 feet of the wall. Turning right as the wall turns right and slightly uphill for another 100m before bending left to cross the field towards a gate into a wood. Taking the first right and then bending gently left to reach the disused quarry, now a car park, and crossing the road to climb on a gravel path onto Scout Scar. Keeping along the edge and thus passing ‘the mushroom’, a lateral wall leading to the trig point and a large low cairn (‘Dave's cairn’), which marks the descent off the Scar into the Lyth Valley, before reaching the grassy combe that marks the end of the cliff. Here taking a hand gate to head forwards gently downhill and then up to join a broad grassy path with views of Arnside Knott and Morecambe Bay. Towards the end, bending left at a subtle fork to cut the corner of the south end of the Scar and to return towards a short steep escarpment. Keeping in the same direction beyond it until 1km later forced left, with a wall now to the right, and climbing back on to the top of the Scar and a gate in a corner. Here turning almost 180 degrees to descend on the other side of the wall for 150m where, after the path goes under a couple of trees, taking a faint path left and contouring along this until, just before another wall, it rises to meet the main path (back from Dave’s cairn). Along this to cross the race course and then turning left for a sore-footed 1.5km descent on a road back to Greenside, Kendal.
Conditions: cloudy but pleasantly warm.
Pub: the Rifleman’s for, unusually, Lancaster Bomber (because of a WW1-themed fete).
