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04/07/2006 - Red Pike, Black Crag, and Pillar with Paul D.

It was a very hot day, perhaps too hot for serious hill walking. The thunder storm the night before had resolved the haziness we experienced the previous day and visibility was good in all directions. We set off from Wasdale Head, sweating and straining our way up the steep path, if it was a path, beside the scree to Dore Head. We had lunch on Red Pike, detoured around Scoat Fell, and reached Pillar via Black Crag and Wind Gap. We descended via Black Sail Pass for pints and a superb steak and ale pie at the Wasdale Head Inn. It was another tremendous day's walk

Our way up to Dore Head

 

Looking back to Dore Head and Stirrup Crag on the right

 

The cairn at 2629 ft.

 

Towards the summit

 

Red Pike summit

 

The view towards Kirk Fell and Great Gable from near the summit

 

An old boot abandoned on Black Crag's cairn with Steeple beyond

 

Paul at Pillar's summit

 

Grasmoor in the distance

 

With Holly at the summit

 

Looking down into Ennerdale as we leave the summit

 

The Black Sail Youth Hostel is the small black smudge near the middle of the photograph

 

Scarth Gap pass between High Crag and Haystacks

 

Green Gable and Great Gable from just above Black Sail Pass

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