Route: Wasdale Head - Kirk Fell - Black Sail Pass - Looking Stead - Pillar - Wind Gap - Black Crag - Little Scoat Fell - Steeple - Little Scoat Fell - Red Pike - Dore Head - Stirrup Crag - Yewbarrow (North Top) - Yewbarrow - road - Wasdale Head
Distance: 10.50 miles
Ascent: 5,100ft
Time: 7 hours 20 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Blue sky and sunshine, overnight frost, cold in the shade but warm in the sun, not much wind, excellent visibility.
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Kirk Fell from the packhorse bridge at Wasdale Head
A floodlit Pillar, the cloud soon dispersed
Looking back down on Wasdale Head from the direct route up Kirk Fell
Looking across to Stirrup Crag (Yewbarrow) and Red Pike
Kirk Fell direct, after the steep grass comes steep scree
Illgill Head and Wastwater from Kirk Fell
Looking across to Great Gable from Kirk Fell
Yewbarrow, Seatallan in the distance, Red Pike, Scoat Fell, Black Crag and Pillar from Kirk Fell
Great Gable with Green Gable to the left, from Kirk Fell's summit
360 Panorama from Kirk Fell's summit
Fleetwith Pike with Hindscarth and Dale Head behind and Skiddaw and Blencathra on the skyline from Kirk Fell
Pillar from Kirk Fell
Looking down on Black Sail Hut (Youth Hostel) from Looking Stead
Mosedale and Wasdale Head from Pillar with Scafell on the far left and Yewbarrow on the far right
The view north from our ascent of Pillar
Looking back along our line of ascent to Kirk Fell with Great Gable, Great End, Broad Crag and Scafell Pike on the skyline
North easterly panorama from Pillar's summit
Looking back across Wind Gap to Pillar from Black Crag
Pillar, Kirk Fell (with the top of Great Gable behind), the Scafells and Red Pike from Scoat Fell
Steeple from Scoat Fell
Scoat Fell's summit
Ennerdale Water from Steeple's summit
180 Northerly panorama from Steeple's summit
Red Pike with the Scafells beyond from Scoat Fell
Dore Head and Stirrup Crag (Yewbarrow) with the Scafells behind from our descent off Red Pike
Great Gable and Wasdale Head
Red Pike, Black Crag and Pillar from Yewbarrow's summit
The descent gully off Yewbarrow to the south
Wastwater and The Screes
Yewbarrow's south ridge
The Scafells and Wastwater from Yewbarrow
Lingmell, Scafell Pike, Scafell and Wastwater
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