A short 6km walk with (Cicerone author) Carroll and Mary in a sunny interlude in a day otherwise of low cloud and rain.
Route: from the National Trust car park (free for members) heading south round the Bridge Hotel to pick up the footpath through Sykes Farm campsite towards the lake, along the shore of Crummock Water and crossing the road to pick up the diagonal track rising underneath Rannerdale Knotts. Taking a steeper short cut diagonal path to reach the main, sometimes stepped, path to the summit. Then descending the ridge to the saddle and back down the grassy slope to the start.Conditons: sunny and warm in high humidity.
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater, for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Esthwaite Bitter, Langdale and Grasmoor and - it being after 2pm - a sandwich lunch.
