A short stroll curtailed by a lack of light in a dry patch at the end of the day.Route: leaving the car at the NT car park (free to members and empty!) and walking past the Bridge Hotel and then right on the path to Scale Bridge, encountering flooded paths. Once across the brook, turning left and along waterlogged paths and under a dramatic Sour Milk Gill to take the newly reinstated bridge back (dedicated to Lynn). Along the shore to the path along the east side of the lake as far as, and over, the cave, then back though the cave with head torches and to the Bridge Hotel for a beer and then back to the car.
Conditions: after a day of rain, a dry interval but brief because of the light.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, for Tractor Brewery Moody Pale Ale.
