Route: from the cottage across field to the pub and then across the Lorton Low Bridge to take the road, then green lane, up High Bank onto the fellside. After 1.5km taking a clear track (though not a right of way) to the ruins at Hatteringill. Then steeply uphill by a wall and bearing right to reach Hatteringill Head. Following paths and then a line of fence through cotton to the summit of Fellbarrow, then running and walking to Smithy Fell and Sourfoot Fell. After a brief look towards Watching Crag, running down a clear zigzagging path into the comb and then across fields to Thackthwaite and back via the road to Lorton, spotting a red squirrel and then pausing for a pint.
Conditions: hot with some hazy sun. Muggy with a hint of rain to come, which never came.
Pub: the Wheatsheaf, Lorton for Ringwood Boon Doggle.
