Route: From the parking at Low Gelt bridge, crossing the bridge to head southeast down the road a short way and then bend left on a track cutting across the quarry to curl round Watch Hill to the right and then follow the bridleway through woods and along field edges for about a kilometre to reach the B road by Tootop Woods. There turning left along the road to reach Middle Gelt Bridge, walk under the railway viaduct and follow B-roads southwest and then southeast to reach the picturesque hamlet of Greenwell. There joining a bridleway to just south of High Gelt Bridge and turning right (south) to follow the road into Castle Carrock. At Castle Carrock the rest of the party stopping briefly at the pub (!) before heading off to circumnavigate the reservoir, while L headed back by leaving Castle Carrock on the road to the west and then turning up an excessively muddy/manurey lane north to get back to Greenwell. There taking the signed path along the River Gelt all the way to Middle Gelt Bridge and then following the Gelt (on the true right bank) two very picturesque kilometres back to the car park.
Conditions: Glorious (unexpected) hot sunshine and blue skies (but a bit muddy underfoot after days of rain)
Pub? Much later, Thwaites Wainwright at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Lorton, with T.
