ACROSS LAKELAND - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 39

Walkers reaching Patterdale at Grisedale Bridge should turn right
along the road, and pass by the church to reach a broad track on the left,
alongside the George Starkey Memorial Hut. The track is signposted 'How-
town' and 'Boredale', and leads to a bridge spanning Goldrill Beck, beyond
which it continues to Side Farm. Once past the farm turn right on a broad
path (slate signpost 'Angle Tarn' and 'Boredale Hause') and start to climb
a little, heading for the scattered farm buildings and cottages of Rooking.
Walkers who entered Patterdale through Glenamara Park and
Mill Moss should leave the village by the side road just south of the White
Lion Hotel, swinging round to the left to end at a corner, meeting the
above route at a gate giving access to the open fell.
The path now climbs steeply, right, for a short while to a fork. Both the
ensuing paths lead with minimal effort to Boredale Hause, with nothing to
choose between them, except that the left fork leads to an old iron bench
(dated 1897) from which to take in the green loveliness of the valley be-
low and the rugged heights just traversed, of Striding Edge and Helvellyn,
Nethermost Pike and Dollywaggon Pike. As the route approaches Boredale
Hause this retrospective view, by no means yet finished with, is particu-
larly outstanding.