Red Screes and Scandale
Sun 8 Feb 2009
Route: Ambleside - Kirkstone Pass road - south ridge - Snarker Pike - Red Screes Tarn - Red Screes - Middle Dodd - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - Scandale Tarn - Scandale Pass - Scandale - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
Distance: 9.50 miles
Ascent: 2,900ft
Time: 5 hours 45 minutes
With: David Hall
Notes:
Overcast but not much wind, cold on Red Screes' summit. The frozen snow mean't that the crampons were needed again.
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Steep down into Ambleside
Snow on the Langdale fells
Wansfell from Red Screes south ridge
Looking across Scandale to High Pike and Dove Crag
Froswick and Ill Bell from Red Screes south ridge
Red Screes from Snarker Pike
Kirkstone Pass
Looking back down Red Screes south ridge to Windermere with Wansfell on the left
Red Screes frozen summit tarn
Across to Helvellyn
Middle Dodd from Red Screes summit
The view west from Red Screes summit
Smallthwaite Band to Middle Dodd
Looking back to Red Screes as we head down to Middle Dodd
Hartsop from our route to Scandale Pass from Middle Dodd
Scandale Pass with Little Hart Crag on the right
Little Hart Crag from Scandale Pass
Scandale from the summit of Little Hart Crag
Scandale Tarn with Low Pike and High Pike behind
Looking back up Scandale
Looking back up Scandale
High Sweden Bridge
The promised bad weather looks like it has arrived in the west
The 19th century folly in the grounds of Eller How, known as the 'Tower of Beauty and Friendship'
Ambleside rooftops
Previous Walk: Three Tarns (Sat 7 Feb 2009)
Next Walk: Great Meldrum and Gowbarrow Fell (Sat 14 Feb 2009)