Over the pass to Braithwaite

A nearly 9.5km solitary (Tim resting his injured foot post hydro-cortisone injection) run/jog  before (or perhaps during?) Storm Jorge.

Route: from the cottage running down to the beck and turning up the Boonbeck road to run all the way to Blaze Bridge and Whinlatter Pass. Joining the pass across Blaze Beck to run the couple of kilometres to the Visitor Centre (closed for the severe weather but cars still parked along the road). Running up the road to the Centre and on past to join the Two Gills Path - (disappointingly!) climbing a wide forest track in the snow for about a kilometre to reach the head of the comb and turn down right on the excellent reinforced path running steeply down the narrow wooded valley with the first gill/beck, crossing another wide forest track and dog-legging right-left to continue down to follow Comb Beck down to Thornthwaite on wider but flooded paths, with trees newly fallen (in recent storms) across them.

Reaching Thornthwaite and running down through the village to turn right in the centre on the track running south out of the village to come to a minor road. Crossing this to pick up the trail on a much smaller, too muddy to really run, footpath and follow this through various sets of gates and past Woodlands and the Hope Memorial Camp (by this point more of a track but still pretty flooded) and eventually rejoin Whinlatter Pass again. Turning left to run along the new flood-defended bottom of the pass and cut through the village to Hobcartons cafe (sadly shut for refurbishment).

Conditions: some bright sunshine to begin with, followed by snow and hail but nothing too hard or cold somehow, very wet and muddy underfoot from the latter stages of the Two Gills Path until getting back to tarmac at Hope Memorial Camp.

Pub: the Wainwright Inn, Keswick, for Fell Tinderbox IPA and Hawkshead Table Beer.