A 10km ‘jog’ (walking the uphill sections) on a hot late Sunday afternoon.Route: from the Rectory running north on Lorton Road and Kirkgate and then tackling a snickleway above the Kirkgate Centre to St Helen’s Street and right along that to the gate on the left onto the footpath up Watch Hill. Walking this ascent to enter the woods to the left of the summit plateau and by a path and then a track to a small path in trees up to a stile to the summit. Splitting up here for L to run on ahead quicker, down along the ridge back down to the road. Dog-legging right-left to join the track over the lower slopes of Slate Fell and right to skirt the edge of the new (Strawberry Grange) housing estate. L continuing left along the Sustrans route and Strawberry How Road and T joining the Greenway to cross the cemetery.
Conditions: a hot, generally still, summer late afternoon.
Pub? Drinks at the Rectory with Mike and Jan.
