Route: Leaving the car on the side of the road at Briar Rigg and walking east along the road to the old station and the Railway Path and following it nearly as far as the A66 where it was blocked. Taking a footpath north to join another and first exploring the settlement (old mill buildings and joinery) below the A66 before crossing the river and joining a muddy path in trees above the river with views of Low Briery caravan park. Descending to rejoin the Railway Path and explore a stage between two bridges before, again, heading north (on a works track) to reach the footpath again. At a fork, descending on wooden steps to walk along the bank in trees, reach a field and again find the Railway Path, then crossing back on a bridge and heading further east. Where the path was again blocked heading north on a road past Brundholme and climbing to join the woodland track under Latrigg. At one stage detouring right, higher up the fell towards the boundary of access land, to be rewarded by a couple of sightings of a deer but also the task of bushwacking steeply downhill beside the barbed wire fence and much gorse back to the track. Following this to the track down past Spooney Green and over the A66.
Conditions: cloudy with hints of late-afternoon sun.
Pub: Keswick being too busy at 6pm, Middle Ruddings, Braithwaite, for Corby Blonde.
