with the rise in covid cases again plus the influx of visitors i thought i should get the 2 fells down Wasdale Yewbarrow and Red Pike done and complete the western fells
i got up at 05:30 (bst) and left home at 06:30 arriving at the parking spot in Wasdale 1 hour later, but in my haste to get out i forgot my energy bar and mars bar i also for got to check the camera battery the night before i had 1 lltre of water with a scoop of SIS in it plus the best buy this year my sawyer squeeze
the start of the walk with Yewbarrow through the trees
the path follows the fence line for most of the way
and then head’s to the crags MR Wainwright calls Dropping crag but i know them as Overbeck crag’s having climbed every route on them and many variations in my younger day’s
for me the scramble up past the crag was the best bit of route up Yewbarrow and went out of my way to take in the rocky bits to add interest
looking down to Waswater
Red Pike and Pillar from from the summit of Yewbarrow
Scoat Fell from Red Pike
Pillar
on the left Middle Fell— Seatallan—and Haycock
Pillar again
Great Gable
Haycock and the Solway coast
the view the other way to the south
the decent of Yewbarrow down to Dore Head was really enjoyable and for me the better option than the scree path under the crag’s
i did find the trek up to Red Pike long and tougher them i remember, i must be getting old
the return down was by Scoat Tarn and brought my out by the car at netherbeck