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The route as it heads towards the high fells after leaving the plantation

The track leads up to enter the plantation and crosses a stream at a footbridge. On leaving the plantation, the route continues towards the high fells, bounded by fences. At another gate, it reaches Access Land, and then makes a circling loop to the north to gain a gently rising track onto Melmerby Low Scar. Here, the track passes between the scar and higher rocks to the east, and eventually runs up to a gate in a wall giving onto open moorland.

Beyond the wall, the route passes through spreads of small boulders, initially as a green trod and heading up towards a large cairn. From the cairn, continue in an easterly direction. There is an indistinct path, but choice of route will be determined by how wet the ground is underfoot. The target is another prominent cairn on the eastern skyline; this is the location of Knapside Hill, the summit of which is marked by a substantial shelter-cairn.

Looking north from the top of Knapside Hill