Route: from the cottage taking the steep cyclists route to the start of Whinlatter and immediately entering a field below High How. Ignoring its summit to leave the field in the corner and then contour north west through bracken but on a clear path. After descending slightly, on reaching a grassy farm track, heading right and uphill sticking with the most promising tractor track to nearly the top and then pathless to the summit of Kirk Fell. Taking an obvious logical line, though pathless to cross a subsidiary summit to reach Graystones. After some deliberation heading north east in time on a very clear path in serach of a route down from Widow Hause but failing to spot any plausible route through mature conifer forest. Instead continuing on a clear, sometimes damp path to Broom Fell and then Lord's Seat. After heated debate, picking the most likely path to descend into the valley, grazing old forestry and picking a straight path with new trees encroaching from the right, this becoming very boggy with chest high bracken and requiring fording a number of stream before picking up a forestry track to Darling How. Here taking a signposted path to Scout Force which again involved head high bracken, nettles etc. Then back down Whinlatter, home.
Conditions: cloudy to start but increasingly sunny.
Pub? no, but bottled beer in the sun at the cottage.
