Route: leaving the car at the NT car park (free to members and with a few spaces at 3:45pm on a sunny Friday afternoon) and running past the Bridge Hotel and Allerdale Court Hotel to the lake and then via the footbridge to the path on the far, western, side of the lake. Along this to the head of the lake and then back first on the road and then on the newly re-engineered path on the eastern shore, this time through the tunnel. At the end of the lake, turning right at the fork to head directly to the village and thus to the Buttermere Court (nee Fish).
Conditions: a surprisingly dry and sunny day after a month of largely rain.
Pub: the Buttermere Court for Corby Lakeland Summit.