Start point: Overbeck Bridge (NY 168 068)
Overbeck Bridge – Bell Rib – Great Door – Yewbarrow (South Top) – Yewbarrow (North Top) – Dore Head – Low Tarn – Overbeck – Overbeck Bridge
Distance: 5 miles Total Ascent: 725 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 15 minutes Start Time: 09:45
Weather: Some bright spells, generally overcast. 9C
I obviously didn’t get enough of the rough stuff yesterday on Great Gable and I was irresistibly drawn back to Wasdale and had a walk across Yewbarrow. I couldn’t help thinking back to Friday’s walk to High Pike – on the trig. column there is an inscription which says ‘Caldbeck fells are worth all England else’. Whoever thought of that one surely can’t have been to Wasdale…
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A profile of Bell Rib at the southern end of Yewbarrow. Earlier there were blue skies but once again a sheet of cloud had moved in to make the day largely grey over this side of the Lakes.
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This photo is looking across to Bell Rib from later on in the walk - two paths can be seen; the one to the right in this photo leads directly to Great Door, the one to the left leads to the second cleft.
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To the right of Great Door is a short climb to Bell Rib (the top of the pointy bit in the first photo) which gives a great view of Wast Water and The Screes.
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The way ahead to Yewbarrow from Bell Rib - first I have to climb down to Great Door which is where the central cleft of rock is in this photo.