Route: from the cottage to Low Lorton via fields, across the river and rising past Low Bank Farm and High Bank on a green road rising onto the shoulder of the hill. Taking a track south at first muddy and then grassy to reach open access land. Then steeply uphill to reach Hatteringill Head and descending and ascending to reach Fellbarrow. Keeping to the (undulating) summit ridge to Low Fell and then descending into the comb to the south. Following a sheep track becoming a clear - perhaps ex-tram - track to reach a partially tarmac track down to the road and thence to the Kirkstile Inn. After a pint, along the road to a right turn on footpaths gaining the under-fell path back to Swinside and then home via footpaths and roads.
Conditions: a day of two halves. To the pub: hazy but high clouds with a breeze. After the pub, much stiller with lower clouds covering even Fellbarrow.
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Pacific Voyage and Esthwaite Bitter.
