A short 5km circuit on a wet low cloud day.
Route: from the lower NT car park for Aira Force taking the path eastwards just under Green Fell though spurning the higher level fork left for rather an awkward muddy and stony path through trees down towards the road but staying just inside the fall as war as a stile back from the road on the right. Turning left and climbing on a zig-zagging path (looking like a Victorian path to a viewpoint), slipping through a gap created by a rock flake up rock steps, and then keeping right on a path. Crossing a faint traversing path and continuing to the cliff. Where a rock overhangs, ignoring the older way bearing right. Instead, keeping left and clambering up a shallow gully lined with tree roots. At the top bearing left and right on a faint path leading past a rocky crest to a stile in the cliff-bounding fence. Turning left on the Watermillock path to descend to meet the outward path but bending right up hill to look at the falls (in superlative form) before returning to the car park.Conditons: low clouds and intermittent rain.
Pub: the Watermill, Ings, for Watermill Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby and Ruff Justice.
