Yewbarrow
Sat 5 Nov 2016
Route: Overbeck Bridge, Wasdale - Yewbarrow - Dore Head - Overbeck Bridge
Distance: 4.00 miles
Ascent: 1,900ft
Time: 5 hours 45 minutes
With: Jill & Nigel, Gary & Sharon
Notes:
Jill and Nigel's 214, great day, cold wind, lots of sunshine
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Yewbarrow, today's objective
Yewbarrow from the car park at Overbeck Bridge
Gaining height and the views over Wastwater to the southwest open up
Heading up
We gain the ridge
Looking across to Haycock and Red Pike
Wastwater from high up on Yewbarrow's south ridge
Looking across to the Scafells
Burnmoor Tarn
Made it
Jill and Nigel, 214
Red Pike and Pillar
Heading for Dore Head
Kirk Fell and Great Gable
Looking back to Dore Head
Evening light on Wastwater
The Scafells
Down on the lake shore, Great Gable, Lingmell, Scafell Pike and Scafell
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