Route: leaving the car on the first left turn before the church in Troutbeck and running through the Limefitt caravan park, past its Haybarn Inn and thus onto the be-puddled bridleway towards the head of the valley on the eastern side. At the Tongue, taking the first footbridge to cross the stream to pick up the track on the other side of the valley but diverging from it on a grassy footpath across a field to join the quiet road back along the valley bottom. At the point where the road turns right to Old Town, taking a narrow walled path (Truss Lane) straight on eventually rising to meet the main road. Crossing over and heading another 200m up a narrow road to take a left turn on a path descending to the church and hence back to the start.
Conditions: very wet under foot but initial rain soon stopping.
Pub: The Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for WPA and Cumbrian Five Hop and lunch, joined by Lois.
