Pillar

Sun 14 Dec 2003

Route: Wasdale Head - Black Sail Pass - Pillar - Black Sail Pass - Wasdale Head

Distance: 9.00 miles

Ascent: 2,700ft

Time: 4 hours 30 minutes

With: Anne

Notes:

Overcast with the cloud base between 2,000ft and 2,500ft

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Wasdale Head Inn

Pillar with Wind Gap just below the clouds

Mosedale (and Pillar!)

Scafell briefly out of the cloud

Mosedale and Yewbarrow

Black Sail Pass

Heading for Pillar from the pass

Looking down on Ennerdale

Mosedale and Wasdale Head

Kirk Fell

Pillar summit in cloud

Retracing our steps back down off Pillar

Descending off Pillar, still in cloud

Looking across Ennerdale to Seat and Scarth Gap

Mosedale and Yewbarrow

Ritson's Bar, Wasdale Head Inn - an excellent pint!

Great Gable at sunset

Great Gable

Inside St Olaf's Church, Wasdale Head

Pillar with its top still in cloud

Illgill Head

Previous Walk: Irton Pike and Miterdale Forest (Sat 13 Dec 2003)

Next Walk: Scafell (Mon 15 Dec 2003)

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