Route: leaving the car at the Broadgate Meadow car park and walking south past Tweedies and along Red Bank. After a subtle bridge over a stream, taking a footpath on the right, uphill along a stony track to Kelbarrow and then along, under the fell, slowly rising heading south and then later bending west. Ignoring the steep direct ascent and continuing through bracken on a path to the saddle from Spedding Crag and continuing above Megs Gill (not actually visible) with a view down to Langdale and the Elterwater quarry. Bending right and climbing onto the summit plateau and following faint grassy and marshy paths north east to reach the summit.
Descending to the west/left of a small ridge and then descending (10 feet) into, and climbing back out of, a rocky gully to cross Wray Gill and then following a ridge down, the path becoming a stony dried-up stream-bed, to Allan Bank and thence to Tweedies, Grasmere.
Conditions: cloudy and surprisingly not warm for 1 August.
Pub: Tweedies, Grasmere, for Thornbridge Krushd, Cumbrian Ales Loweswater Gold and lunch.
