Route: leaving the car at the car park for Grasmoor at Lanthwaite Green Farm and crossing marshy ground to the east to gain the higher lateral path below Grasmoor. Walking part way up an utterly empty Rannerdale to reach the footbridge to cross the stream and return to the pitched path from the road up Rannerdale Knotts. Along the summit with fine views south to Great Gable to descend into Buttermere and to the Bridge Hotel for a beer. Afterwards, taking a flooded path behind the campsite to reach the shore of Crummock Water and thence the rising path over the lower shoulder of Rannerdale Knots and then along the upper shoreline path to the car.
Conditions: cold and bright and sunny. Some ice but not much at these lower levels.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere for Jennings Sneck Lifter.
