Todays permitted exercise!

[Mark G]

If you head straight up the floor of the valley, instead of heading left up the steps to Nab Scar, you eventually get to this nice little reservoir. The gates say private property, but clearly people ignore the signs.
I have tried going up the valley, and then, well after the reservoir, going up steep left, but it was a lot of hard work, and I would not try it again. I suspect going up to the head of the valley would be similarly difficult.

First swam in there in the early 1970s. Don't tell anyone about it, it might get crowded!
I ran through Rydal Park a few weeks ago and I noticed a sign asking people going to the pool (it's called Buckstones Jump) not to go up the track that is the first half mile or so of the Fairfield route as it's not a right of way. Instead they asked people to go up through the new camping area by the hall.
Had some great days there.