Aira Force and Ullswater

Ironically, the weather completely changed for the better as the rest of the group left with frost on the car and a clear blue sky in the morning with a few clouds in the afternoon.
I drove to Ullswater via Kewwick and the A66. I hadn't realised when booking my additional six nights at Glaramara that there were no roads east of south, only west or north, from Seatoller. So I drove the windy B road to Keswick and the A66 a number of times.
I went to the National Trust car-park (free for members) at Aira Force on the western side of Ullswater. There was a path going through the forest to the waterfall and the cascades, and it continued up the fell of Gowbarrow (480m) before descending and eventually returning to the car-park, a walk of 4 miles. There were great views of Ullswater from the top.
Lunch was a Cornish pasty and tea at the National Trust cafe.
I walked parallel to the road and the lake to Glencoyne Farm for a circular walk of 3 miles through a farm, up a fell, and back through a forest, and then retracing my steps back to Aira Force.
On the way back to Keswick, I took the road to Castlerigg to see the bronze age stone circle.
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