Route: leaving the car park opposite Mungrisdale village hall (£2 per day) and walking south west on the gated minor road under the fell for half a mile. Turning diagonally half right, opposite a sheep fold converted into a garden, to ascend a slowly rising well marked path all the way to the top of the ridge a little to the south of the summit (which we spurned). Heading further south first to a cairn overlooking the slopes of Bannerdale and the clouded summit of Blencathra and then off piste to the end of the ridge. Descending to the col above Mousthwaite Comb and then across a plank bridge over the River Glenderamackin to follow this along the valley above its western bank. Carefully jumping a tributary and then picking a route though very swampy grass until the path became more solid half a mile further along. Then back to the start.
Conditions: low cloud and drizzle. Very wet under foot.
Pub: the Mill Inn, Mungrisdale for Robinsons Sharp Edge and Voodoo Dawn and lunch, joined by Janet.
