[Closed] Pillar in T'Lakes (walking not biking)

Not really a faff... start Wasdale head, Black Sail and HLT to pillar Rock, options for a bit of scambling here... then onto Pillar summit. Continue over Wind Gap and cap Steeple then descend Red Pike and down Dore Head Scree. Cracking day out. You can shorten it by descending Wind Gap.

Two day hike with a night in black sail YHA?

It's a great day out in a part of the Lakes that tends to get less traffic. Depends what else you're looking for. If you need the facilities in Keswick, there are a few good all dayers out of there - Newlands Round or Coledale Horseshoe, or Great Gable from Seathwaite. Blencathra is a half-day walk at most.

Not a faff at all. A standard climbing day out would involve starting at Wasdale Head, heading over to Pillar Rock via the high level traverse, a day climbing, and back. A round coming back via Scoat Fell and Red Pike is good.

Save a long drive to wasdale if not already that way. Go from Honister or Buttermere, over scarth gap and up direct from ennerdale passing pillar rock, then traverse Kirk fell, gable, green gable, brandreth and gray knotts. Can shorten via Moses trod after Kirk fell

Cheers for the replies.
Wasdale Head isn't as easy to get to as Patterdale though is it...admittedly last time I went there we went via Newby Bridge and Broughton which took forever...quicker via Wrynose and Hardknott I suppose.
Would a moderately fit bunch be able to do the Mosedale Horseshoe and Scafell Pike from Wasdale on consecutive days?

Yes, absolutely, notwithstanding excess booze or blisters, or awful weather. Scafell pike only from wasdale is half a day tops.

Had a cracking day on pillar once. Walked from lower wasdale up black sail pass, to the bottom off pillar rock. The idea was to climb an easy route up this. We had forgotten the guidebook though! So scrambled up some sketchy gully which wad terrifying. Then walked over yew barrow and back. Was knackered at the end.

It's lovely up tgere though and alot quieter than scafell etc.

It's a fairly easy scramble onto the summit of Pillar rock. Descend into the gap, traverse around the right and up a notch in the RHS and you're on top.

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Yes it's a bit of a phaff getting to Wadale - but the Mosedale Horshow is a classic Lakes walk that can be enhanced with scrambles to suit.

Is it better than Helvellyn and Blencathra? Probably not, but they are bit majestic fell by the edges in both cases.

I've done the traverse from Wasdale and it's very nice with a final scramble onto pillar summit. Also done an approach from the other side (Ennerdale in the pic above) on that occasion we did pillar rock via slab and notch scramble.

All the routes you mention are great days out, pillar/pillar rock being the most remote.

Would a moderately fit bunch be able to do the Mosedale Horseshoe and Scafell Pike from Wasdale on consecutive days?

Don't see why not, but will be a big 1st day. we've done the whole horseshoe over a weekend on two occasions, camping on Kirkfell somewhere. I don't think we did Scarfell (long time ago), so starting on Scarfell Pike and finishing on Yewbarrow.

It's a fairly easy scramble onto the summit of Pillar rock. Descend into the gap, traverse around the right and up a notch in the RHS and you're on top.

It is if you're a climber. Plenty would want a rope for this.

Too right. The HL Traverse and the mini-scramble up to the summit of Pillar (the mountain) rather than Pillar Rock is plenty enough thrills for the average walker. It would be all too easy for someone to get up onto Pillar Rock with relatively no issues, but find things feeling a lot more intimidating on the way back down again.

It is if you're a climber. Plenty would want a rope for this.