Pillar, Scoat Fell, Steeple & Red Pike (Wasdale)

Saturday 23rd September 2017

Pillar - My last Wainwright second time around ! A really good walk today but the weather certainly had its say. We had a few mishaps and had to really work hard to navigate around at the area between Scoat Fell and Red Pike - I'd never go out on the fells without a map & compass - but a GPS is such a good help too.

Our route took us from Wasdale Head via Mosedale to Black Sail Pass where we turned left and climbed Pillar (a hand shake & a photo was all I got this time round at the top). After the limited celebrations, we went down to Wind Gap where we lost the path and had to re-trace our steps as the visibility was so bad. Scoat Fell was followed by Steeple before we did a circle (around the Scoat Fell area - I thought I'd got away with it but Paul took great pleasure in telling everyone later in the day !) before heading over finally to Red Pike (Wasdale).

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Distance: 13.4 miles

Duration: 8:15 hours

Ascent: 4419 ft

Difficulty: Hard

Accompanied By: Paul

Weather: Cloudy & Windy

Wainwrights Visited

Pillar Red Pike (Wasdale) Scoat Fell Steeple

3D outline of route

Parking

Parked up at the Wasdale Head Car Park - Smooth journey here today in Pauls lovely new car

Kirk Fell ahead - but we weren't visiting it today

A rainbow appeared in Mosedale

The well known Wasdale Head Packhorse Bridge

Crossing the beck as we head up towards Black Sail Pass from Mosedale

Time for a pose

This wasn't the glory day that I'd enjoyed back in October 2014 when I first completed my Wainwrights - this was much more subdued with only me & Paul to record the occasion. It didn't really matter though as I now start my third lap (aiming to finish in 2 years this time as it took me four years the first time and 3 years the second time).

Low cloud made navigation pretty difficult _ I made a couple of mistakes as we relied heavily on my GPS (walking round in a circle does count as a mistake !). The area around Scoat Fell and Red Pike can be tricky in poor visibility - as I found out to my embarrassment. Due to our stunning good looks, we managed to pick up a couple of girls lost in the mist - Well, maybe it wasn't our good looks - more like the fact we pretended to know where were going ! Anyway, we enjoyed our time with our new friends and we chatted all the way back to Wasdale. As part of the entertainment, I even demonstrated how easy it is to slip, fall & roll as we descended Red Pike. Good job I wasn't trying to impress !