Route: Debbie having squeezed into the last proper parking space just after 11.30am on August Bank Holiday Monday, heading straight up from the car park gate to Robin’s Steps in the usual way to bear east through the woods and up to the subsidiary summit and then on to the true summit.
Then heading south to the pass crossroads and following the edge of the wood round to the east and south again, taking the path above the beck back down the boathouse and the short of Crummock Water. From there taking the main path north parallel with the shoreline to the head of the lake to hug the shore all the way round to the pump house. Here making a direct beeline west to Park Beck and following it (roughly) all the way to Low Park Farm to take lanes north and north west to St Bartholomew’s church and the Kirkstile Inn.
Conditions: Largely overcast but surprisingly sticky on the ascent
Pub: Kirkstile Inn! (for their Eskthwaite Bitter and Life of a Mountain)
