Route: leaving the car in the Gatescarth Farm carpark (£4 all day) below Fleetwith Pike and ascending the ridge slowly mainly on the edge until, near the top, where the route cuts a little in to the right, with increasing views back north to Scotland. From the summit descending south-east on an indistinct and occasionally marshy path to quarry works and then down to a stream, crossed on stepping stones, to find a paved route towards Haystacks. For once, spurning the right turn onto a higher path under Green Crag and, instead, keeping to the main route to Innominate Tarn. Then forking right to clamber to the summit area, settling on just the most south-easterly summit. Descending to Scarth Gap on the more stepped rocky path further north and east than the scree alternative and then back down on the stony but improving path to the lakeshore and across the head of the valley to the car.Conditions: sun first thing had given way to cloud but no rain, humid.
Pub? The Buttermere pubs still being closed because of C-19, the Kirkstile Inn under social distancing for Cumbrian Legendary Ales Loweswater Gold.
