Route: leaving the car off the road overlooking Wast Water and following the more easterly branch of Goat Gill though bracken and without any trace of a path steeply up hill to the west of Goat Crag to reach a broad summit ridge and hence to the top of Middle Fell. After a short rest, descending a surprising height to cross what might normally be a marshy saddle and make a steep ascent on a grassy but stepped path to the summit of Seatallan. Descending the steep eastern end to the saddle and then trending left to reach a boulder with a cairn on it marking the start of a grassy way to the summit of Haycock. Then following a wall to the top of Great and Little Scoat Fell with views down Ennerdale. Picking a rocky path to the top of Red Pike and then descending a stumbly path to Dore Head. Here ascending half of the necessary altitude on scree tracks before reaching the crux: an 8 foot chimney (at the limits of T’s head for heights). Thereafter, simple scrambling to the ridge of Yewbarrow with fine views to the head of Wasdale. Descending on a ridge path until it tuns right on an ill-repaired path later joining a steep and unpleasant scree-filled gully (with some relief in a path to the right) before reaching first pitched stone steps and than a grassy path to the lake for a quick naked plunge, and then a one kilometre walk on the road back to the car.
Conditions: a warm still day with intermittent breeze, becoming fully sunny at the end. Not a good day for photographs.Pub: the Strands, Nether Wasdale for Strands Green Bullet.
