Route: leaving the car by the side of the road above Elterwater and taking the normal path by the river through quarry debris. Through the quarry (pausing to look at the quarry from the viewpoint), doglegging left right across the road beyond to join a track rising gradually and diagonally to the ridge and along, eventually, to the summit. Scrambling down to the saddle and taking the narrow path to Fat Man's Agony beyond the kissing gate and then onto Side Pike. Down the Fix the Fells zig-zagging path to the Old Dungeon Ghyll for a pint. Then back along the Cumbria Way to the Wainwright Inn and back on the path to Elterwater.
Conditions: a bright sunny day though with ice under foot on the ridge.
Pubs: the Old Dungeon Ghyll for Theakstons Old Peculiar and the Wainwright Inn for Jennings Sneck Lifter.
