Route: leaving the car at the Lanthwaite Wood National Trust car park and taking a steep shortcut to reach the start of the the small path up Roger’s Steps to the summit plateau of Brackenthwaite Hows. Descending south and picking up the 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, for the first time, taking a track and then Church Road in a direct line to the (church and) Kirkstile Inn and then, after a pre-lunch pint in an unusually quiet pub by a roaring fire, back along the road.
Conditions: grey, windy and wet.
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn, for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Pacific Voyage and Loweswater Gold.
