Route: leaving the car in a layby at Wath Bridge on the way out of Cleator Moor (space for ~8 cars but also space across the river), crossing the river and walking 1km southwest on the c-road. At Black How, joining the Coast to Coast by turning left on a forestry track uphill to a fork, in increasing drizzle. Turning left and then right onto a path out of trees by a fence to the marshy summit. At this point, the rain becoming harder. Continuing without views, descending steeply into Uldale, turning left along Kirk Beck to Nannycatch Gate. Abandoning plans to climb Flat Fell and instead heading left along the valley bottom bridleway, in heavier rain, crossing puddles to reach a steeply descending c-road back to the start.
Conditions: initially cloudy and grey but turning wetter.
Pub: the Keekle Inn, Keekle, (for the first time) for Cumbrian Ales Loweswater Gold.
