Route: leaving the car at the NT Lanthwaite car park and approaching the lake heading - mistakenly - on the higher path towards Lanthwaite Green Farm but turning off to descend to the boathouse. Then along the lake shore until reaching a path sloping gradually up to the road. Here almost doubling back on a path just inside the wall by the road to High Wood. Then following the road past Lanthwaite Gate to take a walled green track past private ground until a route appeared in the woods up onto the sparser ground of Brackenthwaite Hows. Descending a small ridge to find Robin’s Steps and thence back left and right to the start.
Conditions: cloudy with some shafts of sun and one short shower on the top.
Pub: The Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, for Tractor Shed Mowdy Pale Ale
