A four hour walk with Angie and Alistair on their first visit to the Lorton cottage.Route: leaving the car in the National Trust car park to the north of the village and walking past the pubs to the lake shore. Then taking a pitched step-like path through trees to reach the open fellside and continuing up past the tarn to where pitching gave way to a loose scree path to the summit. Then along the ridge to High Stile and High Crag before a steep descent on a very tidy pitched path against a flow of Ironman triathlon runners. At Scarth Gap, taking the path back to the lake and along it to the pub and thence car.
Conditions: cloudy but warm with just a hint of the forecast showers.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere for Carlisle Brewery Citadel and Tractor Shed Mowdy
