Route: from home to the new Stonecross Meadow housing estate to pick up buttons for charitable purposes and then through town, dodging the zombies, up Windermere Road and right into Hallgarth to deposit them with Linda. Taking the footpath over the railway line between Low Mead and Briarrigg and then along Burneside Road to Burneside and left up the very steep Sharps Lane (pausing to look at a pond with ducklings) to cross an empty A591 and proceeding along Ratherheath Lane pausing at Ratherheath Tarn, recently re-engineered to enable access for wheelchair-using anglers (it looks terrible, sadly), to join the Crook Road. Left off this for a fine descent to Underbarrow and then along the side of the valley to Brigsteer, staying low and thus facing a very steep climb at the end of the village. Thence to junction just north of Levens and the easier ascent of Sizergh Fell before our standard route back via Natland, pausing to admire a large rootling pig and the river at the bridge over the Kent before Sedgwick.
Conditions: hot and sunny, clouding over and then clearing again.
Pub? (C-19) Bottles of Hawkshead WPA and Henney's Dry Cider in the summerhouse.
