A 7.5 km run, the longest since the previous November.Route: leaving the car at the NT car park (free to members and largely empty on a stormy February Monday) 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 over rather than through the tunnel for fear of flooding. At the end of the lake, turning right at the fork to head directly to the village, Finding the Buttermere Court (née Fish) closed, going to the Bridge Hotel, open again after a month of being closed.
Conditions: a cool feeling 7C given light rain blown in a stiff wind, quite strongly against us on the return.
Pub: the Bridge Hotel, Buttermere, for Tractor Shed Mowdy Pale.
