A 9km run with extended walking interludes.
Route: leaving the car parked on a layby of the A65 just west of Jubilee Lane near Fowlstone and taking a path off a yard in Fowlstone and immediately turning left, north-west, following a footpath sign, apparently through a garden and then heavy going slightly uphill in long grass, crossing three fields to reach Crabtree. Turning right up a track, at a walk, and at a Y-junction heading north uphill to the corner of a field and then across fields for 1.5km keeping a wall on the left and ignoring the possibility of roughing it to the top of Scout Hill to the right. Descending to a c-road and heading generally downhill past Tarnhouse Tarn and High Row Farm and then, boldly and with no right, turning right onto a track obviously made to service the summit transmitter and following this, at a walk, to the summit. Descending south-west to pick up a faint track, through a gate and down to join the footpath to Lupton High (and a donkey). Keeping south-east first across lush grass hiding uneven hard mud and then down a track back to the start.
Conditions: cloudy but very humid giving way to some sun (the clouds clearing later in the day).
Pub? (C-19) A shared bottle of Abbot in the summer house.
