Route: leaving the car where the road widens 200m north of High Nibthwaite and running back through the village to take a left turn to pick up the stony track slowly ascending onto the fellside, with improving views over the lake to all the Coniston fells. Passing Low Parkamoor and shortly afterwards entering Grizedale Forest, first on a narrow path later on wide forest roads to reach a crossroads north of Carron Crag. Turning right and immediately right again off the right of way along another forest road. After a left turn taking a stony path uphill to the (today crowded!) summit of Carron Crag. Descending onwards eventually to reach another forest road, turning right and then right again onto a path roughly parallel with the road, then joining it to a crossroads. Here turning left and following the road generally gently downhill, spurning two left turns, and turning left, over a bridge over Farra Grain gill, passed by two large, enthusiastic but apparently owner-less, hounds. Rising at a walk and then descending more steeply down the road, joined by a right of way, to turn right on a softer track that became a path through a wall and then rising, again at a walk, on what seemed a very old footpath eventually emerging from trees, descending damply then climbing under Old Parrock Hill and descending now quite slowly. Just short of Low Bethercar turning right within the Right to Roam land and climbing over a final spur, then down to High Bethecar and then descending on a treacherous path next to Caws Beck to High Nibthwaite and thence back along the road to the car.Conditions: high cloud, dry and a surprisingly balmy 9C.
Pub: the Ship, Greenodd, for Greenodd Brewery Wanaka Light, Kiln Bitter, Caskade and Greenodd Roundabout.
