Route: leaving the cars on the top road in Troutbeck and walking north to find Nanny Lane, the walled track ascending onto the fellside. Walking up this until it levels and then on. Ignoring the left turn to Wansfell Pike and staying on the road to a bend and stream where the path has been re-engineered using alluvial material. Towards the end of the track, climbing a stile to the left to find a clear grassy path, initially close to the track but later diverging left and becoming steeper to reach the small cairn of the summit. Then on an undulating path, marshy, along the summit to reach Wansfell Pike. Afterwards descending to the observatory and an initially rising woodland shortcut to find Robin Lane, the main track looping round the bottom of the fell to Troutbeck.
Conditions: cloudy, dark and windy on the top but not starting raining until reaching the cars, again.
Pub: the Watermill Ings for Windermere Brewery Wruff Night.
