A late afternoon/early evening stroll to redeem a lazy day.
Route: from the cottage to Low Lorton across fields via the church, across the river and rising past Low Bank Farm and High Bank on the green road rising onto the shoulder of the hill. Taking the unofficial but very well established track south, at first a little muddy and then grassy to reach open access land. Here failing to reunite a mother and offspring sheep dyad. Then, steeply uphill away from Rosemary and her brother (not Si, as we had thought), seen a bit too far behind to merit sociability, to reach Hatteringill Head and descending and ascending to reach Fellbarrow. Keeping to the (undulating) summit ridge to Smithy Fell, Sourfoot Fell and the valley-overlooking viewpoint below Watching Crag. Then descending, at a run, the zigzagging path to Thackthwaite and back along the road to Low Lorton, retracing the outward route.Conditions: a warm stiff breeze probably heralding Storm Ellen forecast for the following day.
Pub? No but, back at the cottage, a bottle of Lidl’s Hatherwood Golden Goose, which wasn’t bad.
