I drove and only Peter and myself on this walk so I picked him up around 7.30 with a new recruit, my dog Cubby. We drove down past Richmond and then Reeth to a small village called Gunnerside where we parked up, had our breakfast pie (although not Angus the butcher today!) and set off walking about 8.45am. It was a nice sunny morning although the temperature was a little chilly.

As we left the village and started to climb very gently we made a right turn and began to climb up the hill. We could let Cubby off the lead now as there were no sheep around. The first thing he wanted to do was run in the ditches so very quickly he was black. It was quite windy in the exposed areas, which was most of the walk but as we began to descend towards the ruined buildings near the stream it got a little warmer. We stopped at the ruins for some lunch and Cubby wolfed down his dinner and then tried to greed from us too. The sun really warmed up over lunch.

After lunch we set off walking back down the valley and crossed over the stream which was quite high and running fast. Cubby was not too happy about crossing it and placed his feet very carefully. Once over we dropped down to the road and then walked back along to the car. It was quite a long hike and energy sapping on the road, it took us over an hour to get back to the car.

All in all quite a short walk (back at the car by 1.30) but quite tiring after such a long lay off.

Looking forward to the next Lakes walk and welcoming Steve back. hopefully around the end of April.