An 11km walk passing time before an expected meeting with the de Souza-Brazils.Route: leaving the car near the old school at Wythop Mill and walking west on the road to join Green Lonning. Near the end, popping into the field to the left so as to keep the altitude and walking south east parallel with Tom Rudd Beck, thus circling Ling Fell (finding the previously unexplored section of path from 6-5 o’clock only a bit marshy). Returning to the ‘entrance’ to Ling Fell and taking the higher road east to the end of the hanging valley, turning left and then climbing steeply up onto Lothwaite at its east end. Then walking over Lothwaite, Rivings and Sale Fell, descending the ridge, turning left onto the balcony path but taking a short cut back onto the road and, after a final road-ascent, descending to the car.
Conditions: warm with some sun, later turning cloudy (with rain coming in after we had finished).
Pub: the planned post walk meet-up having been hampered by the surprisingly slow rate of progress of the de Souza-Brazils (in fact, not simply strolling to the Castlerigg Stone Circle as thought), first cheese scones and tea back at the cottage and then later Loweswater Gold at the Pheasant Inn, Bassenthwaite, with the others.
