Route: Leaving the car on the road over Scarny Brow near Scaly Moss (ignoring road closed signs) and heading north east on a track entering a plantation. At a complicated junction keeping left close to a fence until a stile on the left gave acccess to the side of Grike. Following a narrow and fairly steep path to the summit, then running down to a saddle with a transmitter and walking up a grassy path to Crag Fell. Descending this, again at a run, to cross the original track where trees had been cut down but the threatened boggy conditions were not apparent (after a very dry and sunny May). Then following a wall on the left up hill until a path branched to the right to reach the top of a wide flat ridge and then descending and reascending to reach the broad summit of Whoap with a white sheep-like stone at an obvious (though not the highest) protruberance. Returning in almost the same sense and then heading down to the right to pass a saddle and climb slowly to Lank Rigg and then to a cairn a little beyond for a better view of Sellafield. Back the same way to the saddle and then following a clear but narrow path, marshy in places, along Whoap Beck and then leaving it where it became the River Calder to climb up to the road and run back to the car.
Conditions: hazy sun though quite breezy.
Pub: the Ennerdale Brewery, Rowrah for Ennerdale Blonde, Pale and Wild (thirds of).
