Route: exiting the Staveley Mill Yard by the footbridge over the river and then turning left along the road to reach Hall Lane. A little way along this, taking a farm track past Scroggs Farm followed by a bridleway before turning off left across a field to cross the River Kent where the main road switches banks. Running north on the quieter western road to join a bridleway and then cross eastwards at Ullthwaite Bridge back over the river. A little further north taking the footpath steeply uphill, where a small conifer forest had recently been cut down, to cross moorland and join the upper reaches of Hall Lane (Lois returning directly from this point with a strained muscle). At a signpost, taking an invisible footpath uphill across fields to join a farm track at Ghyll Bank and turning right to head gently downhill eventually to reach Birkfield Farm and then descending on a paths and tracks to reach the Staveley back road turning right to the sewage works and then left across fields back to the Mill Yard.
Conditions: surprisingly warm and hazy for February.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for Hawkshead WPA and Cumbrian Five Hop.
