Route: from the Staveley Mill Yard, west along Kendal Road to the left turn onto the Dales Way just before the level crossing and following paths across fields to run along the river bank past Cowan Head to Bowston where the route joins the road. Turning right on a road to Bowston Farm and then along a track parallel to and then crossing the railway line and eventually carefully across the busy A591. Through woods to Ashes Lane and on this past the camp site (where tarmac gives way to track). At the point where the route back to Kendal joins from the woods, striking out across the field to a footpath sign and then across fields to cross the A591 again and more fields before crossing under the railway. Then back to the start.
Conditions: ground level cloud and drizzle. Although the river was lower than the previous week, the ground was even more sodden, waterlogged and muddy.
Pub: Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for Cumbrian Five Hop and WPA joined by Sian.
