Route: meeting Lois after her meeting at Plumgarths and running west along the road for 700m to turn left on a footpath across a field and then climbing through woods to the summit of Cunswick Scar. Then heading towards the footbridge over the A591 but bending left across the field to find a stile, pass through Helsfell farm and follow a track and then diverging left onto a path back to Plumgarths.
Conditions: a hot sunny May day.
Pub: the Gateway Inn for Thwaites Gold.