Distance 7.5 miles
Ascent 350m
Weather: cloudy, rain showers
Pub walks are a thing. There are many books about them on sale in outdoors shops. However it is not something we are accustomed to - our walks tend to be more cheese sarnies and flasky tea in the rain type affairs.
After a leisurely morning of bird watching and weasel spotting, we headed out of Bowness over Brant Fell. We walked over the fell to Lindeth Lane, stopping to put on waterproofs as the heavens opened. We passed a raven and a buzzard, and possibly a flock of goldfinches.
The going was wet, it has rained quite a lot lately, and rained on and off all day, but there were no major puddles. The lane at Mitchelland was closed which was good for us as there was no traffic to worry about for most of the way.
We arrived at the pub and de-waterproofed, leaving our boots in the entrance porch. I don't know if they would have minded our boots, but I'd carried my daps so I was going to wear them. Lunch was very civilised, big comfy chairs, a log fire and good food and ale from their own brew house.
Eventually we had to leave as we had to get back before it got too dark to see. It rained a little but it was pleasant to walk back in the dusk over the moors along the Dales Way path with the birds roosting and the sheep grazing.
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