A late afternoon run in a pause in Storm Ellen’s rain, if not gusty wind.
Route: leaving the car at the NT car park (free to members and 2/3 full despite the very poor weather) and running past the Bridge Hotel to the lake and then via the reinstated footbridge to the path on the far, western, side of the lake. Along this to the head of the lake and then back first on the road and then on the newly re-engineered path on the eastern shore. Taking the higher path doubling back to cross over, rather than through, the tunnel. At the end of the lake turning left at a fork to keep along the northern lake shore and hence back on the outward route but sopping, for the first time, at the Buttermere Court Hotel (ex the Fish). Later, at a walk, back to the car.Conditions: cloudy and windy but only some damp in the wind.
Pub: The Buttermere Court Hotel for Allendale Pale and Wagtail.
