A 9km walk at the end of the afternoon of New Year's Eve, arriving home across muddy fields in the dark.
Route: leaving the cottage and walking to Boonbeck and up the road to take the track from Scales to High Swinside Farm. Turning diagonally uphill to cross the road and take an obvious track north east towards a wall. Here walking steeply uphill reaching a snowline. Once the hill eased walking between the wall and a fence, crossing the fence to climb onto an obvious subsidiary ridge and following this round to a tiny but marked cairn. Heading further along the ridge and descending to the east to find the main ridge path and following this back down to the road. Heading back down the road to cross the outward route to Hopebeck and taking the path across fields to Low Swinside and increasing darkness to Boonbeck and home. 
Conditions: cold and frosty with snow on the hills.Pub? a bottle of Ginger Tom (for T) and then later vodka on a Zoom call with Paul and Katya.
