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Yewbarrow

Walked on 25/08/2005

Start point: Overbeck Bridge (NY 168 068)

Overbeck Bridge – Bell Rib – Great Door – Yewbarrow (South Top) – Yewbarrow (North Top) – Dore Head – Overbeck – Overbeck Bridge

Distance: 4.5 miles     Total Ascent: 1077 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour 50 minutes

Weather: Sunny spells with a cool wind. 15°C.

Today’s walk in cooler weather than recently was up to Yewbarrow from Wasdale. This walk starts with a steep ascent from Overbeck Bridge followed by a scree climb and a walk along the full length of the ridge before another scramble down Stirrup Crag before contouring back along Yewbarrow’s western slopes. A lovely, shorter walk which gives good views to the head of Wasdale, the Scafells and Great Gable.

 

Yewbarrow

Yewbarrow route map.

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Yewbarrow from Wasdale, Great Gable to the right.

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The steep path to Bell Rib (complete with a hurry up call!).

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Lingmell, Scafell Pike and Scafell (in cloud) across Wast Water on the ascent.

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Mountain dog on the climb to Bell Rib.

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Illgill Head and Whin Rigg across Wast Water from Bell Rib.

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The westerly view from Yewbarrow.

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Great Gable catches the sunrays.

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Wasdale Head from Stirrup Crag. Notice the field boundary, stone wall arrangement. Wordsworth said of this '...meadow and corn-ground intersected with stone walls apparently innumerable, like a large piece of lawless patchwork, or an array of mathematical figures, such as in the ancient schools of geometry might have been sportively and fantastically traced out upon sand.'

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Another view of the Scafells.

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Pillar and Mosedale.

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Looking back to Dore Head.

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Over Beck.

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