Route: leaving the car at the first of the carparks approaching Rannerdale Knott and heading up the ridge of Lad How rising steeply but on a well-graded path to the summit of Grasmoor. Then back down the broad path to the col and up Eel Crag, descending it on rough scree to Coledale Hause. Up Hopegill Head and along the ridge of Whiteside to descend to the main Grasmoor carpark. Here taking a path across fields and through woods to the shore of Crummockwater and along this back to the start.
Conditions: a hot and sunny though sometimes cloudy and windy day.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere for Hesket Newmarket Haystacks and Tractor Shed Mowdy.
