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 route map.
Yewbarrow from Wasdale, Great Gable to the right.
The steep path to Bell Rib (complete with a hurry up call!).
Lingmell, Scafell Pike and Scafell (in cloud) across Wast Water on the ascent.
Mountain dog on the climb to Bell Rib.
Illgill Head and Whin Rigg across Wast Water from Bell Rib.
The westerly view from Yewbarrow.
Great Gable catches the sunrays.
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.'
Another view of the Scafells.
Pillar and Mosedale.
Looking back to Dore Head.
Over Beck.