A short stroll to support the local pubs without pushing Tim's post-breakdown limits.Route: parking at the bottom of Whinlatter, across from Hope Memorial Camp, and walking down to cross the prayer-flagged bridge and cross Braithwaite village to walk out on the footpath skirting the perimeter of the camp site. Following the beck down to cross a little bridge and walk along through Little Braithwaite and down to the road bridge over Newlands Beck. Here hoping to turn right along the beckside path south down the valley but finding it closed 'due to serious erosion' carrying on along the road to the Swinside Inn. There enjoying fine pints of Theakston's Bitter and Deuchars IPA in tandem with a fine view of Barrow before heading down the road towards Stair, forking right on a track leading down to a short stretch of beckside path to a stone bridge. Crossing the bridge to walk up to Uzzicar and turn up right to the road to Newlands Pass, shortly afterwards forking left to track up through the gorse and bracken to the final shoulder of Barrow and on down to Braithwaite Lodge. There turning left to head across fields to the river, dipping down into the dell and up to reach the minor road up to the reservoir. Here turning right to walk down to the pub.
Conditions: some warm (nay, hot!) sun on the first leg of the walk, thereafter cloudy but still and not cold
Pub: at last, the Coledale Inn (garden only because of C19), for a pint of Tractor Shed Mowdy Pale and a soda water and lime.
Pub: at last, the Coledale Inn (garden only because of C19), for a pint of Tractor Shed Mowdy Pale and a soda water and lime.
