An arduous 20km jog, with much walking as necessary.
Route: taking the 10:30am train from Oxenholme to Windermere, leaving the station
and taking the footpath to Orrest Head (cutting corners on paths to avoid the paved route) and then continuing northwards downhill and across fields before reaching and turning right on the road for 300m. Turning left to cross more fields and turning right on the Ings-Troutbeck shortcut road to reach the start of the Garburn Pass (Dubbs Road). Along this gaining altitude steadily to the top of the pass, walking all steep sections, before making a slow steeper descent on the very rocky track to Kentmere church and down the road to cross the river and take an immediate left. After 100m walking up a steep footpath across a field to dog-leg left-right across the upper Green Quarter road. Then taking a footpath signed to Sadgill initially along Cornclose Lane, slowly gaining altitude and the shoulder south of Hollow Moor. On entering Right to Roam land, taking a path south east to a gate in the corner of a wall and joining the main path towards Hall Lane. Following this down to the paved road and after 1km turning right to follow paths across fields (including a surprising uphill section) to Low Elfhowe and then back along a track to Scroggs Farm and the footbridge to the Mill Yard and later (after beer and peanuts!) the station.Conditions: warm and increasingly sunny after starting from low cloud in Kendal.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley, for Hawkshead WPA and Mosaic IPA.
