Route: leaving the cottage and taking the road past Boonbeck up to near Swinside Houses. Then taking the forestry track (route of the C2C cycle route) to just past the top of Whinlatter for a coffee at the Whinlatter Visitor Centre. Then taking the green waymarked walking route (‘Seat How summit trail’) through trees to join a forestry track near Comb Plantation. Following this up and over a high point near Tarbarrel Moss and following this down under Ullister Hill into the valley of Aiken Beck and down to Darling How. Joining the main road down to Lorton but detouring to the pub and then home over the fields.
Conditions: low cloud and later heavy rain and wind.
Pub: the Wheatsheaf, Lorton, for Jennings Sneck Lifter.
