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
Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Overcast with a short rain shower towards the end of the walk, moorland, some bog jumping and fence climbing skill was required.
A. Wainwright's 'The Wasdale Horseshoe' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 248].
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The A6 Shap road summit
The Memorial, A6 Shap road summit
The Memorial, A6 Shap road summit
Little Yarlside with Great Yarlside behind (skyline) from Whatshaw Common. Just follow the wall
The Head of Crookdale
Crookdale from the climb up Little Yarlside
Great Yarlside from Little Yarlside
The Howgill Fells from Great Yarlside's summit
Harter Fell, Mardale (centre skyline) from Wasdale Pike
Shap with a touch of snow still on the Pennines in the distance from Wasdale Pike
Heading for Wasdale Head. Just aim for the mast
A diversion off AW's route to visit a perched boulder, "To Stone or to'ther" as marked on the OS 1:25,000 map
The ruins of Wasdale Head Farm
Shap Pink Quarry (Granite)
Nearly back on the A6, looking up Wasdale to Little and Great Yarlside
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