Todays permitted exercise!

[JohnK]

20.48 miles, 4,021 feet, 5 hours 26 minutes: Staveley - Kentmere - Shipman Knotts - Kentmere Pike - Harter Fell - Nan Bield - High Street - Blue Gill - Troutbeck Church - Robin Lane - Ambleside. Overcast, cloud base initially about 1,000 feet, later 2,000 feet and eventually a bit of sunshine. Mizzly at times in the mist. Terrain damp and slippery. Very few up high though I saw a couple of runners on Kentmere Pike. Troutbeck and Robin Lane very busy.

That's a grand run out!

Love the area around Harter/Nan Bield/High Street. In fact following the "ridge" all the way from there over to Kirkstone is my idea of perfection.

For me perfection in this area is from:-

Harter Fell to:- Mardale ill bell, The Knott, Raven Howe, Red Crag, Wether Hill,

Loadpot Hill, Arthurs Pike, Bonscale Tower ,Hallin Fell, Steel Knotts, Beda Head,

The Nab, Rest Dodd,Brock Crags, Angletarn Pikes, Place Fell.

Then down to Patterdale for the bus home I.M.O. that gives a perfectly satisfying Bimble on some of the best, quietest fells in this area.