Walk Information

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Walk route: A6 Shap road summit - Whatshaw Common - Little Yarlside - Great Yarlside - Wasdale Pike - Wasdale Head Farm - A6 Shap road summit

Distance: 5.75 miles

Ascent: 1,150ft

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Time: 2 hours 15 minutes

With: on own

Conditions: Overcast with a short rain shower towards the end of the walk, moorland, some bog jumping and fence climbing skill was required

Comment: A. Wainwright's 'The Wasdale Horseshoe' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 248].

Photos

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The A6 Shap road summitThe Memorial, A6 Shap road summitThe Memorial, A6 Shap road summitLittle Yarlside with Great Yarlside behind (skyline) from Whatshaw Common. Just follow the wallThe Head of CrookdaleCrookdale from the climb up Little YarlsideGreat Yarlside from Little YarlsideThe Howgill Fells from Great Yarlside's summitHarter Fell, Mardale (centre skyline) from Wasdale PikeShap with a touch of snow still on the Pennines in the distance from Wasdale PikeHeading for Wasdale Head. Just aim for the mastA diversion off AW's route to visit a perched boulder, "To Stone or to'ther" as marked on the OS 1:25,000 mapThe ruins of Wasdale Head FarmShap Pink Quarry (Granite)Nearly back on the A6, looking up Wasdale to Little and Great Yarlside

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