Middle Dodd

A good day again today dodging storms on Red Screes.

We set off from Ambleside at 10am and climbed from the Kirkstone Road onto the southern ridge of Red Screes, climbing up over Snarker Pike and eventually into the cloud near the summit, here it started raining, but this only lasted for a few minutes before passing over, we were now in pretty thick cloud now with occasional breaks with views.

We continued to the summit of Red Screes, stopping in the large wind shelter near the trig point to eat our lunches.

After lunch we descended north onto Middle Dodd, here we were below the cloud and had some good views down to Brothers Water and of the surrounding fells.

From Middle Dodd we traversed south to meet the main path descending from Red Screes to Scandale Pass picking the path up down into the Scandale Valley and followed the track back, past High Sweeden Bridge to Ambleside and the Golden Rule!

If you have ever done The Fairfield Horseshoe you will have walked past this great mountain, but it is a mountain that deffinitely deserves a visit!

We left Ambleside via the Kirkstone road, which gave us a nice quick boost of height. A shirt way up the road we took the public footpath up onto the hillside. The slope of Red Screes is long and gentle, and very nice underfoot. As always as we climbed the views just got better and better. By midday we were on the fine summit of Red Screes from where we opted to have some lunch. The steep sides of Red Screes provided us with some fine views, especially over towards the Far Eastern Fells.

This walk has three optional summits on it, of which we were opting for all as we were on a peak bagging mission! We followed the large spur off of Red Screes and collected Middle Dodd before contouring around the slope to bag High Hartsop Dodd, which held great views over Brothers Water. From this summit we backtracked a little and climbed to our final summit of the day, Little Hart Crag. Just off of this summit we took a lovely rest and enjoyed the views back down the valley to Ambleside.

Now on our return leg we descended to the valley bottom and followed the good track back to High Sweden Bridge, and then through to Ambleside.

good day climbing Red Screes from Ambleside today, we set of from Ambleside and climbed by 'The Struggle'  and climbing the long southern ridge of Red Screes, by Snarker Pike. We were in thick cloud from just after leaving Ambleside.

As we approached the summit of Red Screes we reached good snow, quite thick in places and plenty of it!

There were no views from the summit, but we stopped and ate our sandwiches in hope before descending north to Middle Dodd, over some deep drifts.

We descended down to Scandale Pass and down into the Scandale Valley and followed the track back by High Sweeden Bridge to Ambleside, dropping below the cloud only as we reached the valley.