Route: Wasdale Head - road - Yewbarrow - Dore Head - Red Pike - Steeple - Little Scoat Fell - Black Crag - Wind Gap - Pillar - Black Sail Pass - Wasdale Head
Distance: 10.50 miles
Ascent: 4,200ft
Time: 6 hours 45 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Strong wind at times, broken cloud
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Kirk Fell and Great Gable
Rather than climbing Yewbarrow from Overbeck Bridge we decided to use the Bob Graham Round route of ascent
Ascending above Wastwater
Illgill Head and Wastwater
Burnmoor Tarn comes into view
Red Pike and Pillar from Yewbarrow's summit
Over Beck, Middle Fell and Seatallan
On the path to Dore Head
Red Pike from Dore Head
Looking back to Yewbarrow, with the Scafells behind, from our ascent of Red Pike
Looking towards Red Pike's summit
Scoat Tarn and Haycock
Pillar from Red Pike's summit cairn
Whin Rigg (on the far side of Wast Water), Middle Fell and Seatallan
Seatallan and Haycock
Looking towards Scoat Fell from Red Pike's summit
Steeple
Ennerdale Water from Steeple
Haycock, Little Gowder Crag and Caw Fell from Scoat Fell
Scoat Fell's summit cairn on the wall
Black Crag and Pillar from Scoat Fell
Looking across Mirk Cove to Steeple
Looking across Wind Gap to Pillar
Mosedale, Kirk Fell and the Scafells from Wind Gap
Looking back to Black Crag, Scoat Fell and Steeple from Pillar
Pillar summit
Our route off Pillar with Great Gable ahead
Ennerdale far below
Mosedale with Yewbarrow on the right from high on Pillar
Looking across Ennerdale to High Stile and High Crag
Black Sail Pass
Yewbarrow and the Dorehead Screes from Gatherstone Beck
Mosedale and Pillar
Almost back at Wasdale Head
Wasdale Head Inn with Pillar behind (and generators on the right!)
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