Pillar plus
Sat 13 Jul 2002
Route: Wasdale Head - Black Sail Pass - Looking Stead - High Level Route - Pillar - Wind Gap - Black Crag - Little Scoat Fell - Steeple - Little Scoat Fell - Red Pike - Dore Head - Over Beck - Overbeck Bridge - road - Wasdale Head
Distance: 12.00 miles
Ascent: 3,500ft
Time: 6 hours 30 minutes
With: Anne
Notes:
Dry, warm, no wind
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Pillar from Wasdale Head
Green Gable, Great Gable, cloud flowing through Beck Head and Kirk Fell from above Black Sail Pass
Looking back into Mosedale with Yewbarrow centre and the Dore Head screes obvious
A tiny Black Sail Youth Hostel below Haystacks from Looking Stead
Ennerdale forestry work
On the first part of the High Level Route, Pillar
The Shamrock Traverse and Pillar Rock from Robinson's Cairn
Robinson's Cairn plaque
A cloudy Pillar summit
Leaving Pillar for Black Crag with Scoat Fell and Steeple ahead
Panorama from the descent to Wind Gap from Pillar
Joss Naylor, legendary fellrunner and Wasdale sheep farmer
Looking back over Black Crag to Pillar from the ascent up Scoat Fell
Little Scoat Fell summit cairn, on top of the wall
Steeple from Scoat Fell
Heading to Steeple
Pillar from Steeple's summit with Great Gable on the right with its top in cloud
Red Pike from the route off Scoat Fell
Great Gable from Red Pike's summit
The Chair, Red Pike
Panorama of the Wasdale Fells from The Chair, Red Pike
The Scafells and Yewbarrow from above Dore Head
Wastwater and the Screes from the side of Yewbarrow, above Over Beck
Lingmell, Scafell Pike and Scafell from Yewbarrow's south ridge
Wastwater and the Screes
THE VIEW, classic Wasdale
THE VIEW, classic Wasdale
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