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
Weather: Glorious sunshine. 24C.
What a gorgeous summer day today, the best this year that I have been out in for sure. I headed over to Wasdale and had a walk up to Yewbarrow which is always a great walk. I managed to find not one but two places to have a welcome dip today and there is no better feeling than having a bathe in cool, fresh water on a day such as today.
Regular viewers will know that I have been writing a feature for Lake District Life magazine for the last couple of years. That magazine is now defunct and has amalgamated with the much bigger Lancashire Life. I am pleased to announce that I have now signed up to write a column in there starting from the August issue – stick with me Casper lad, I’ll make you a star!

Yewbarrow's claim to fame is that all the Lake District 3000 footers can be seen from its summit. This view is to the most distant, Skiddaw, straight along the ridge.

Kirk Fell and Great Gable and the fourth 3000 footer, Helvellyn, between Great Gable and the small lump of Glaramara.

Looking back to the main top of Yewbarrow from the highest point to the north. The cairned north top is further along the ridge.

I decided to walk to Low Tarn nestling below Red Pike and it was baking hot now, here looking to the Scafells from the tarn plateau across a cotton grass field.

Low Tarn. It was so hot that I could not resist a dip in here although it is not exactly the deepest tarn for a swim. A quiet mountain tarn like this is simply an idyllic place to bathe.

Looking across to Yewbarrow from High Fell and unless my eyes deceive me that's a cow! In fact there was a whole herd of them, not something you really expect to see so high up. I'm sorry Casper but you are on your own!

This is a good view of Dropping Crag on Yewbarrow. The route of ascent directly to Great Door is the scree slope that curves to the right. The alternative path to the left misses it completely.