Route: leaving the car by the green in Bassenthwaite village and heading southwest to cross the A591 and continue on a very muddy and occasionally submerged track joining a path diverging from it south across fields by a stream. At a path crossroads running left to Scarness and then taking a path towards the lake to gain a (slippery and almost submerged) boardwalk via some very precarious stepping stones. Along this with evidence of flooding round a vague promontory to rejoin the road, diverting again on footpaths to St Beda's Church. Then along clear paths to Mirehouse, crossing the A591 at Dodd Wood car park and following the yellow-marked Sandbed Gill trail, initially at a walk and then running along under Ullock Pike, eventually rising, again at a walk, to cross the intake wall and run along it to the end of the ridge and then down towards the start, making one key navigational error and having to cross a couple of fields to regain a different path to the west of the intended line but back to the car.
Conditions: a cool breeze, cloudy but light.
Wildlife: lambs, pheasant, ducks, swan (disturbed at very close quarters and hissing), lambs, lambs, lambs...
Pub: the Pheasant Inn, Bassenthwaite (Lake), for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Loweswater Gold and homemade crisps.
