Route: leaving the car at the National Trust car park and zigzagging south and then north to pick up the small path up Roger’s Steps to the summit plateau of Brackenthwaite Hows. Descending south and picking up, for the first time, a path within the wood by its eastern wall to join the small path descending to the boat house. Thence round the lake to Highpark Farm and round the end of Mellbreak before descending to the Kirkstile Inn and then back along the road.
Conditions: grey and windy and threatening rain but not cold.
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn, for Cumbrian Legendary Ales American Invasion and Loweswater Gold.
