Route: exiting the Mill Yard over the footbridge and heading south east across fields to the sewage works and along the road to the track to Side House. Up the valley on road and track to Ghyll Bank turning left descending over fields to cross Hall Road. Here for the first time doglegging right-left (rather than left-right) to follow paths across fields to Low Elfhowe and then back along a track to Scroggs Farm and the footbridge to the Mill Yard. (Lois peeled off at Littlewood Farm to take the route directly over (near) Spy Crag to Barley Bridge, with a little detour to explore just south of the path.)
Conditions: a dry although cloudy day.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for lunch, WPA and Session IPA.