Red Screes to Low Pike
Wed 3 Sep 2008
Route: Kirkstone Pass - Red Screes - Middle Dodd - Scandale Pass - High Bakestones - High Pike - Low Pike - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
Distance: 7.25 miles
Ascent: 2,050ft
Time: 5 hours 50 minutes
With: Jill & Nigel Batchelor and Terry Bottomley
Notes:
Wet, very wet. In cloud on Red Screes and High and Low Pikes. Blowing a gale at times.
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Kirkstone Pass Inn
Looking back down on the Kirkstone Pass Inn as we start our ascent of Red Screes
Wansfell and a bit of Windermere
Kirkstone Pass Inn
Ascending Red Screes
Nearly at Red Screes summit
Red Screes summit
Middle Dodd comes into view as the cloud breaks
Middle Dodd from Smallthwaite Band
Looking back to Red Screes from the summit of Middle Dodd
Brothers Water from Middle Dodd
Scandale Pass
Traversing the flanks of Red Screes, heading for Scandale Pass from Middle Dodd
Looking over Scandale Pass to Little Hart Crag with Saint Sunday Crag beyond
Descending to Scandale Pass
Looking over Scandale to Low Pike and High Pike
Ascending to High Bakestones with Little Hart Crag below
The large cairn on High Bakestones
Descending from High Pike
You have been warned!
High Sweden Bridge
Sweden Bridge Lane leading down into Ambleside
The ruined tower between Ellerigg and Sweden Bridge
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