A 9km walk with Helen and Andrew.
Route: leaving the car at 2pm at the layby near the phone box at Waterend (some spaces in February on a good day) and taking the path down across fields and up to Hudson Place, turning right to pass Jenkinson Place, slowly ascending a track onto the shoulder of the hillside.
Taking a sharp left rising in the direction of Burnbank Fell but then left to descend on the obvious coffin route. After crossing Holme Beck, ignoring the left turn into the wood and continuing on the balcony path to its end, descending to and through High Nook Farm. Just after this, turning left through an unmarked handgate to join a permissive path through fields to Watergate Farm and then back along the lakeshore to the start.
Conditions: in a six week period of much rain, a sunny dry day.
Pub: The Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater, for Cumbrian Ales American Invasion IPA, Esthwaite Bitter and **
