Route: leaving the car where the road broadens by Greenbank just before Wilson Place Cottage in Little Langdale and walking along the road to the Three Shires Pub for a half pint stiffener. Then down towards Jam Street but diverging half right to Slaters Bridge and along the bridleway above Greenburn Beck but crossing it on a footbridge to climb onto Wet Side Edge. Ascending into cloud and walking, viewless, along the ridge to reach Great Carrs. After a short descent, ascending to the summit of Swirl How. Descending Prison Band to emerge into sun for the first time and then slowly climbing onto Wetherlam. Descending Wetherlam Edge onto Birk Fell Man and dropping down to the right, pathless before climbing another pair of small summits. Then descending to cross a wall and then a bilberry rich marsh to climb Low Fell and Knott Head before a tricky pathless descent through bracken and marsh to reach the outward bridleway and a return to the Three Shires.
Conditions: initially low cloud but later clear skies and warm sun.
Pub: the Three Shires, Little Langdale for initial halves of Coniston Old Man and Loweswater Gold and then later for Loweswater Gold.
