A 6km run ending up, briefly, at Lorton Fest. An Outdoor Day because the first use of the balcony path in about a year.Route: Leaving the cottage and running south to Boonbeck, and slowly up the road to the footpath to cross a field with views down the valley to Mellbreak. Descending to a hand gate and turning left up hill out of a farm yard, left and again on a road and then right at the start of the enclosed track up hill from Scales to the southerly ‘balcony’ path to High Swinside Farm, finding it very overgrown.
Descending south and turning right at a T junction on the road from Hope Beck, to a path across fields to Low Swinside and then along the track to High Mill, Church Lane and left through the church yard to the pub.
Conditions: a warm but not too hot sunny late afternoon.
Pub: the Wheatsheaf, Lorton for Crooked River Pale (from the outside bar) and a a bit of Lorton Fest.
