Route: leaving the car at the NT Lanthwaite Wood car park and zig-zagging on tracks towards the lake and back to find the small path off the track leading up to Robin's Steps and thus onto a grassy ridge up to the summit of Brackenthwaite Hows and down into the wood. Turning left to take a green track to the road at Lanthwaite Gate and 200m further taking another path right back into the woods. Descending to the Boat House and then along the side of the lake until the path bends left to reach the road. Here leaving Emma and Nathan to continue over the shoulder of Rannerdale Knotts and through the woods to Buttermere but turning round ourselves to run directly back to the car along the shore.
Conditions: low clouds and showers.
Pub: The Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, for Jennings Sneck Lifter, Heskett Newmarket Haystacks, Tractor Shed Mowdy Pale Ale and Strands Black Knight.
