Route: leaving the car at the National Trust car park at Great Wood, crossing the road and taking a path to the shoreline. Picking a way along this, the water being sufficiently low, joining a raised path approaching the Kettlewell car park where crossing the road to follow a woodland path to the Lodore Falls Hotel. Joining the road as far as a gate onto a path on a man-made causeway across the marshy headland of the lake to a bridge over the inflow and then boardwalks to reach the stony path back along the west side. The route rising gently near Hawse End Outdoor Centre and then by wooded tracks to Portinscale. Crossing the Derwent on a foot bridge to reach Keswick and across town to the Theatre by the Lake where joining throngs of vocal vulgar strollers to take the more or less lake-side path back to the start.
Condtions: grey skies but high cloud and dry.
Pub: Middle Ruddings, Braithwaite for Independent Lakeland Breweries Entente Cordiale and Pure North Cider Press Sweet Union (cider!).
