A 6km stroll.Route: leaving the car in the Lanthwaite Green car park (half full at 11am in mid-January) and heading east up the steep narrow path but turning left on reaching the track and then joining the road past an outhouse, turning right. After 200m taking a path over a wobbly stile and along to join a track to the right. Following this round an implicit hillock to a gate in a wall and turning left across marshy ground to approach Pickett Howe. Turning right up the final path onto the ridge and then heading gradually to the summit. Descending into the woods to the south and near the end of the ridge taking the second main path back down towards the lake shore, taking a narrow path off it to cut a corner and reach the shore. Round the lake to reach the pump house and then along Park Beck to the road to the Kirkstile Inn. After a pint, back along the road to the start.
Conditions: low cloud gradually rising, dry and windless!
Pub: the Kirkstile Inn for Cumbrian Ales Loweswater Gold and Grasmoor Dark.
