Route: leaving the car at the National Trust car park at Buttermere (free and packed because of COV-19) and immediately taking the footpath round High House Crag to the south keeping a fence to the right above Mill Beck. Just before the final section of wall, forking left up on the shepherd's drove towards a first unnamed gill to cross and continue on a balcony path on the lower slopes of Bleak Rigg. Reaching Third Gill where turning left up the ravine to find a crossing point and carry on on a yet higher path and traverse for a kilometre to Addabcomb Beck. Here turning left just before the ford to struggle steeply and pathlessly up to find a path and a more pronounced ridge at the edge of Addacomb Hole and take this to the summit. Descending via Whiteless Edge and Whiteless Pike but detouring on a quickly fading path round the eastern edge of Whiteless Breast. Later rejoining the main descent path and returning to the car park via the northern edge of the quarry under High House Crag.
Conditions: good visibility, with some high cloud with occasional warm sunshine when the strong and icy wind dropped
Pub: Kirkstile Inn to pick up bottles of Cumbrian Legendary Ales American Pale and Loweswater Gold (because of the first full day of the COVID-19 pub closures) to drink indoors at the cottage.
