[1] There is a parking area just south of Surrender Bridge at the junction of the Langthwaite to Low Row and the Healaugh roads. From here go back to the Low Row road and turn left up the hill for about 400 metres to a footpath sign on the right.
[2] Take this grassy track up hill and as it levels out enjoy good views across Swaledale to left. Follow track south west then descend to the hamlet of Blades (half a dozen scattered houses) to join the tarmac road.
[3] Turn right onto this road and follow west. Where the tarmac/concrete ends continue on a broad grass track keeping to the contour line as it turns towards north west. When track turns right to renovated barn go straight ahead through gate and follow path over two stiles to reach the end of the tarmac road coming up from Gunnerside.
[4] Turn right and go through a gate then with a wall on your right follow this round to the right. Where a grass track is seen on the left follow this up a gentle slope (north) to join a stone track coming from left. Continue up hill past grouse butts and follow track to the left (north west) and continue along what is now a keepers track. Ignore turn to the right just after concrete watersplash and proceed straight on this track past ruins of Moor House and old walled sheep pens until a broad track is met running from right to left.
[5] Turn right and follow downhill to Level House Bridge, cross Old Gang Beck and turn left with the Beck on your left. {It is possible to shorten the walk here by turning right and with the Beck on the right follow the track back to the road at Surrender Bridge}
[6] Pass the ruins of Level House on the left and continue over ford passing a level entrance on the right {Brandy Bottle level??} a pleasant place to stop for a break. Follow the track over a second ford and up a short hill to a gate.
[7] Here you enter a 'lunar' landscape with no vegetation the result of years of mining and dumping the spoil. The track can become indistinct but continue generally just north of east with a large cairn on a height to the front and left of the route. Great Pinseat and the trig point are some 300m. to the left of the track and hidden behind a wall
[8] As the track goes right and downhill it leaves the lunar landscape. Pass a sheepfold on the left and grouse butts on the right continuing some 2kms. to the road. Turn left on the road then right on to a track leading to a gate (no fence at the time of writing) and descend to Fore Gill.
[9] Go right and with the Beck on the left follow a sometimes indistinct path above the beck. Where the bank to the beck opens into a rough area a path can be seen coming up from a footbridge over the beck and the path you are on turns right. Follow path as it turns right and continue on the path back to the road passing the ruins of Surrender Smelt Mill on the left. On joining the road go left and over the bridge back to the start.