An account of the trail in northern England, starting in St. Bees on the Irish Sea and ending in Robin Hood's Bay on the North Sea.     Click on any of the photos to see an enlargement and cutline. Day Five - 16 miles, 2700 feet ascent Patterdale to Shap    The path over Kidsty Pike from Patterdale to Shap can be one of the loveliest of the trip. It can also be one of the most confusing and unrewarding if the weather doesn't cooperate and the mountains are shrouded in mist. For me, it was both. I'd been warned not to miss the cutoff toward Kidsty Pike after The Knott. Nonetheless, when I got there the visibility was only a few feet and I continued past the small cairn, eventually walking all the way to the end of High Street.    This mistake added several miles to an already long day. But it wasn't all bad: As I walked back along High Street to find the proper trail, the mist lifted and I was rewarded with wonderful views looking back toward Patterdale and Hayeswater Lake. The views were just as good on the ascent of Kidsty, with the headwater of Haweswater Reservoir and Riggendale Beck far below and the High Street ridge above it.    This was followed by a walk the length of Haweswater and then a seemingly endless series of small hills through farmland before arriving at Shap Abbey and, finally, Shap itself.