Route: from home via Burneside to Staveley and then the main road to Windermere (and the first puncture), Ambleside (for a cycle shop) and Grasmere for coffee at the Potting Shed. Then via Dunmail Raise and the minor road to the west of Thirlmere (the party splitting by accident here) before passing through Keswick and the C2C detour to Braithwaite and lunch in the sun outside the Middle Ruddings. A steep climb over Whinlatter followed by a quick descent and then a mid afternoon pint outside the Kirkstyle Inn in hazy, even misty, weather. Then a further climb before a fine long speedy gradual slight descent from Rowrah on an ex-railway line cycle path meeting Steve Mitchell at the Georgian House B&B, Whitehaven.
Conditions: warm dry with hazy sun. No views of the fells.
Pubs: Middle Ruddings, Braithwaite for Cumbrian Legendary Ales, Langdale and Ennerdale Summer Ale; Kirkstyle Inn, Loweswater for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Pale Ale and The Vagabond, Whitehaven for Eden, Eden Gold and Fell, Tinderbox.
Pubs: Middle Ruddings, Braithwaite for Cumbrian Legendary Ales, Langdale and Ennerdale Summer Ale; Kirkstyle Inn, Loweswater for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Pale Ale and The Vagabond, Whitehaven for Eden, Eden Gold and Fell, Tinderbox.
