SD5260160420 Start from Birk Bank car park. Leave by the gate onto the open fell.

SD5281560401 After a minute, turn right at a grassy junction. Make a mental note of this junction as you'll need to spot it on the return leg. Take a slippery and rickety boardwalk across a marsh (be careful, especially if you've had a big breakfast: slats are often missing or broken). Head up a lovely wooded dell with a tumbling beck.

SD5341160304 At a junction of stone walls, take the right hand of two ladder stiles. Head up the fell for a few paces then swing right on rocky ground, past a Lazarus Tree: a hawthorn that has blown down but refuses to give up. As mothers say in northwest England, think on.

SD5364660125 Go through a rough gate and take the stony track flanking up to the escarpment. Follow this, with increasing interest, to the summit trig point and shelter.

SD5440559469 Head due East from the summit on a reasonable track to a stile over a fence. Bear slightly right then drop to your left and you should see the good Land Rover track that forms the descent. You should also see the Andy Goldsworthy pillars in the distance.

SD5509259634 At the Land Rover track, take a short detour to see the Andy Goldsworthy installation. The installation, titled "Clougha Pike", was built over three years spanning the millennium.An alternative name is the Three Chambers but don't confuse them with the Three Chairs, shown on the map, or the Three Men of Clougha, which are three distinctively slender cairns that you'll soon be passing.

SD5556459487 Drop north to join the Land Rover track snaking down the slope. Follow this past the Three Men and down a steep incline with a locked vehicle gate bypassed by a stile.

SD5376861244 Turn left just before a stone wall to pick up the contouring track to point 2. You'll cross Ottergear Bridge, which carries the Thirlmere Aqueduct and inspired local folk band Ottersgear. Check out their album "Quest for Rest."