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| Name: | Wasdale Pike |
| Hill number: | 2581 |
| Height: | 565m / 1854ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2559 Tarn Crag (Sleddale) |
| County/UA: | Westmorland and Furness |
| Topographical area: | EL06 Highstreet-arnside |
| SMC/RHB section: | 34C: Lake District - Eastern Fells |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Lake District - Far Eastern Fells |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Eden (Carlisle), Lune |
| Watershed: | Morecambe Bay, St Bees Head to Ravenscar, Solway Firth |
| Class: | Wainwright Outlying Fell, Birkett, Synge (WO,B,Sy) |
| Grid ref: | NY 53638 08495 |
| Summit feature: | rock |
| Drop: | 5m |
| Col: | 560m NY535084  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 90 (1:25k) OL7N |
| Observations: | cairns described by Wainwright have been destroyed; cairn at NY 53706 08507 has been constructed since 2013 |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 280 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Shap Summit > Whatshaw Common > Little Yarlside > Great Yarlside > Wasdale Pike > Wasdale Head > Shap Summit | Winterfloodian | 29/07/2024 |
| Start: Wet Sleddale Car Park (at west end of dam). Head south through gap in wall. Follow track to gate and then pick up unmetalled road to Lunch House. Continue upstream (wet) and cross stream to large bolder, Gray Bull. Track north-west amongst bog and heather to Sleddale Pike (1659ft). Head south to Wasdale Pike (1852ft) and then along a better path to Great Yarlside (1986ft). Trig point ring is other side of wall. Retrace path and then head north to Little Saddle Crag and then Great Saddle Crag (1850ft). No path. Head west and then swing round to north to Ullthwaite Rigg (1648ft). Bog, pools and streams. Tough. Descent north. No real track. Wet, boggy and long grass. Pick up bridleway and head east. Wet in places. Zig zag path below Sleddale Hall. Follow track to Sleddale Grange. Pick up road to Thorney Farm. Footbridge blocked (unsafe) so ford River Lowther and pick up road back to car park. | DABT | 24/07/2024 |
| Interesting circuit from the A6 parking area of High House Bank, Robin Hood, Lord's Seat, Great Yarlside (Sy), Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag, Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Yarlside, little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common & Whatshaw Common East Top | oldbagger27 | 21/11/2023 |
| Wolf Howe, Lamb Pasture SE Top, Lamb Pasture, The Forest, White Howe, Bannisdale Fell, Nameless, Harrop Pike, Great Yarlside, Wasdale Pike, Sleddale Pike | keithouk | 15/10/2023 |
| From Wet Sleddale Dam. 14 km, 400 m asc. Up by Poorhag Gill, the Lunch House and Gray Bull to Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle Crag and Ullthwaite Rigg. Back by the Sleddale Hall BW. Rough, boggy, pathless, unrelenting trudge. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720310490788 | SalmonJoe | 13/08/2023 |
| 2W, 5WOs around Sleddle. | atreides7887 | 26/03/2023 |
| 10 mile circuit from high point parking spot on the A6. Whatshaw Common, Little Yarlside, Great Yarlside, Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag, Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike. Frozen underfoot so the cross country bits weren't so bad. | JulieB | 12/12/2022 |
| A6 layby - High House Bank - Robin Hood - Lord's Seat - Grey Crag - Harrop Pike - Ulthwaite Rigg - Great Saddle Crag - Wasdale Pike - Great Yarlside - Little Yarlside - Whatshaw Common (both tops) - A6 layby | Gary Heath | 29/04/2022 |
| 8 of 9 starting on a6 car park. From sleddale. WO no. 8 | The-Z-Man | 17/04/2022 |
| Wainwright route from the dam. Overgrown due to summer growth underfoot, reasonably dry but lost track at times once above, lunch hut and then rough going. Wonderfully empty country although would like to see more wildlife variety and fewer grouse | trimarc2 | 29/08/2021 |
| Followed Wainwright walk out to Wasdale Pike with track virtually all the way on dry ground given recent weather. Couple of tops wrong side of fence/wall but were easy enough to get to. Returned over rough ground missing out Wasdale Farm by flanking Hazel Bank. | SS | 25/07/2021 |
| From reservoir CP. Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle Crag & Ulthwaite Rigg | Slash3 | 27/06/2021 |
| Started from Reservoir Car Park to Wasdale Pike (via Lunch House) - Low Saddle Crag - Great Saddle Crag - Brown Howe - Ulthwaite Rigg - Tongue Rigg with return beside intake wall above deer enclosures. | RobB | 02/06/2021 |
| Parked in the layby by the Shap bothy. Went through the gate , traversed to Old Shap Road heading for Whatshaw Common. Nipped over the wall to bag Whatshaw Common East (484) back over the wall to follow the track to Whatshaw Common. Back over the wall to follow the track to Little Yarlside. On the way to Great Yarlside we used the vehicle track on the west side of the wall that goes up to the summit , i.e. hop over the wall again. Bagged Great Yarlside , my watch said 592m. Back over the fence and along the track to Wasdale Pike for lunch. So far- easy , tracks all the way. Beware the fence near Wasdale Pike is not the one on the OS map. We followed it in the wrong direction for quite a way. We should have gone through the nearby gate and used our compass. Eventually made our way down to the ruined farm, followed the track then followed the fence/ plantation border up to the A6. No sign of the old farm track that Wainwright refers to in his book. 10km circuit. | RowanP | 17/04/2021 |
| yorkielad | 07/12/2020 | |
| Parked on the A6 at 55384 06219, went down the hill to cross the river at Hause Foot before doing a horseshoe of High House Bank, Robin Hood, Lords Seat, Great Yarlside, Great Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common and Whatshaw Common E.Top. 3h 50m 9.64 miles. | clivevilla | 11/10/2020 |
| Parking at Wet Sleddale reservoir - 'wet' is highly appropriate, only the very summits provided any semnlance of 'dryness'. Sleddale Hall, Scam Matthew, then almost trackless purgatory commenced - Ullthwaite Rigg, Tongue Rigg, Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank, Long Fell, quarry road, A6, Shap Lodge, track back to reservoir. After Scam Matthew intermittent ATV and An Tx provided a little relief from the interminable boot wrecking toody blussock grass. Having descended the quarry road, a sign says there is no public access (but it was a Sunday, so unoccupied), Only after having negotiated the bog to get onto it , a sign says that there is no public access along the cart track back to the reservoir, even though it is within an Open Access area. | Isbjorn | 27/08/2020 |
| Parked at highpoint of A6. Extended round of Crookdale taking in 10 Wainwright Outliers. | PGCE | 06/06/2020 |
| A ride out from home on my mountain bike as far as I could and then walked the rest for my exercise during lockdown. | Chipstertrain | 24/04/2020 |
| A6 Shap Summit, Hazel Bank, Shap Quarry Mast, Wasdale Pike, Great Sleddale Crag, Sleddale Pike, Tongue Rigg, Ulthwaite Rigg, Harrop Pike, Lawyers Brow, Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside, Whatshaw Common, A6. Great area for solitude & marsh plants! | Vin | 05/03/2020 |
| Whatshaw, Yarlside, Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank. With FR from A6 in mist | Bheinn | 21/01/2020 |
| With NB from A6,Whatshaw E top and Common, Little and Great Yarlside, Lawyers Brow, Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike, Hazel Bank on another misty damp day. | Frank | 21/01/2020 |
| A combination of Crookdale and Wasdale horseshoes from from the A6 layby. Taking the bridleway down to Crookdale Bridge then: High House Bank, Robin Hood, Lord's Seat, Harrop Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Yarlside, Little Yarlside and Whatshaw Common. Winter solstice, a 12 mile walk on the shortest day. Terrible visibility, in cloud all day. Did last hour in the dark with head torches. | Lazylizzie | 21/12/2019 |
| From A6 monument, day deterioted to low visibility and heavy rain | cjo | 07/12/2019 |
| Ascent from Memorial in layby on A6. Followed track to summit of Whatshaw Common. Follow wal to Little Yarlside and on to Great Yarlside. Shelter from hale. On to Wasdale Pike and down to Sleddale Pike, return to Wasdale Pike and on to Great Saddle Crag. Return to track and Great Yarlside. Followed wall round to Harrop Pike. Descent to Mere Crag and followed track to Red Crag and on to Lord Seat and Robin Hood. Followed track and path to High House Bank. Descent to Hazel Bank and Crookdale Bridge, before ascent back to A6 layby. | raymooremanx | 12/10/2019 |
| High Bank House, Robin Hood, Lord's Seat,Great Yarlside,Wasdale Pike, Little Yarlside and Whatshaw Common. | Walkingmurphy | 08/09/2019 |
| From reservoir car park for a round of Ulthwaite, Great Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike and Sleddale Pike. | rhalstead | 25/05/2019 |
| Wet Sleddale Reservoir CP -> Sleddale Pike -> Wasdale Pike -> Great Saddle Crag -> Ulthwaite Rigg -> Scam Matthew -> High Wether Howe -> Seat Robert -> Great Ladstones -> Wet Sleddale Reservoir CP | briandiggle | 29/04/2019 |
| Bob & Duke Wednesday 27th/3/2019 Z 1439 hrs. | DukeNukem | 27/03/2019 |
| Crookdale and Wet Sleddale Horseshoes | tomd4 | 23/09/2018 |
| Direct line from Hazel Bank. Took an equally direct line across to Long Fell. | jonglew | 04/08/2018 |
| A solo run of the Wasdale Horseshoe and the Crookdale grouping | Shutterlag | 25/06/2018 |
| From Great Yarlside, on AW’s Wasdale Horseshoe. | rfoster | 30/04/2018 |
| The Wasdale Horseshoe visiting: Whatshaw Common, Little Yarlside, Great Yarlside, Harrop Pike, Grey Crag, and Wasdale Pike. 17km with 500m ascent taking just over 5 hours. | silveracorn_alan | 26/12/2017 |
| With Pup & Poppy | Littledave | 15/10/2017 |
| cj | chrisj1965 | 13/08/2017 |
| WOs 92,93,94 and 95. Bs 79.80,81 and 82. A hard day. Easy walk by path and track from the dam to the Lunch House, then very rough and boggy going up stream to Gray Bull. Drier but rough and heathery over Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle Crag and Ulthwaite Rigg with little of interest. Back along very boggy Mosedale bridleway and even boggier path around reservoir. Sunny all day but was it worth it? | BURGESS | 10/08/2017 |
| AW's outliers second of four tops today on a 9 mile walk setting off from the Wet Sleddale reservoir car park sign posted from the A6 just before you enter Shap. Taking in Sleddale Pike, Wasdale Pike, Great Saddle crag and Ulthwaite Rigg. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 06/08/2017 |
| Part of the Crookdale horse shoe. 700th hill bag. | BobHancock | 01/07/2017 |
| Included on my circuit of the Crookdale summits | bardolph | 03/06/2017 |
| Crookdale citrcuit from Hause Foot | Ajm0310 | 23/05/2017 |
| AW's Wasdale's Horseshoe route, slightly extended to the true summit of Great Yarlside. Whatshaw Common East Top - Whatshaw Common - Little Yarlside - Great Yarlside (Wainwright top) - Great Yarlside - Wasdale | Nick Down1 | 03/05/2017 |
| Up from Hazel Bank. With Eire, Evan, Sail, Danu, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 23/04/2017 |
| From Memorial lay-by on A6 (NY 55383 06193) - Whatshaw Common East Top - Whatshaw Common - Little Yarlside - Great Yarlside - Wasdale Pike - Great Yarlside - Harrop Pike - Grey Crag - Lord's Seat - Robin Hood - High House Bank. Grassy paths throughout although sometimes vague. Very wet underfoot, would only recommend after a prolonged dry period. | david230201 | 02/04/2017 |
| Done with Richard Turner on a very misty day, use of compass was essential. | falunty | 15/02/2017 |
| Done with Richard Turner on a very misty day, use of compass was essential. | nitranrenrut | 15/02/2017 |
| Parked on Shap pass, Little Yarlside, Great Yarlside, Harrop Pike, Grey Crag, Tarn Crag, Wasdale Pike, Wasdale Head. Sunny, clear views, cold, icy. | Fell_wanderer | 27/01/2017 |
| From Sleddale Pike south across snow, heather and rough ground. | bolton | 30/11/2016 |
| Wet Sleddale dam car park (Space for 12-15 cars) - Up track past Lunch House to Gray Bull - Sleddale Pike - Wasdale Pike - Great Saddle Crag - Ulthwaite Rigg - Excellent bridleway down Sleddale & then across stepping stones SE of Sleddale Hall. (PM) | gerrybowes | 30/11/2016 |
| Round of Long Fell, Sleddale Pike, Tongue Rigg, Ulthwaite Rigg, Great Saddle Crag, Wasdale Pike and Hazel Bank from Shap Pink Quarry. | Eddie | 07/03/2016 |