Route: Leaving the car in the Rydal Road Ambleside car park and walking past the Golden Rule to take the second left to High Sweden Bridge and then climbing indirectly onto the ridge via a lower path to skirt rocks on the ridge itself and then crossing the wall (for the first time) to take the less used path on its left hand side and avoid the obvious later bog to pass Low Pike, High Pike, Dove Crag, Hart Crag and Fairfield and then down past Great Rigg and Heron Pike. Back through the grounds of Rydal Hall.
Conditions: low cloud and intermittent rain but heavy rain only starting in the last half mile.
Pub: the Golden Rule, Ambleside, for Robinson’s Double Hop and a coke.
