A 13km solitary run (L singing a concert) on a cool autumn day.Route: taking the 41 bus to the bus station and running along the riverside footpath to Dockray Hall Road, Burneside Road, Sparrowmire Lane and then anti-clockwise round Low Garth. At a small patch of communal mown grass, taking a narrow path behind a garden to a stile onto open fields. Following the path north until just after Madgegill, taking the right fork (some navigational error here) to emerge on the road into Burneside at a level crossing. Heading north east on Hall Road to join the route of the Dales Way through Tenement Farm to Sprint Mill and on to Burton House. Crossing the A6 and leaving the Dales Way to take a path in an overgrown ditch (brambles and nettles) to a gate onto a lower field and following a path on its left side arching round to Skelsmergh Hall and then a path south east to Dodding Green.
Doglegging right left across Helme Lane to follow a path north of the river mint past a campsite to where the Thirlmere aqueduct crosses the river and using this to get to the other side (an easy climb of two metal fences and a wide path above the pipes). Then following the river to re-cross the A6 and follow the river round Mintsfeet to a footbridge and from here left through the industrial estate to the monthly opening of the Lakes Brew Company brewery.
Conditions: cloudy and mild except in an occasional cool breeze.
Pub: Lakes Brew Company brewery, Kendal for an open day for Best Bitter and West Coast IPA.
