Kirkstone Pass – Red Screes – Smallthwaite Band – Middle Dodd – Smallthwaite Band – Kirkstone Pass Start Point: Kirkstone Pass (NY 401 080) Distance: 4.5 km Total Ascent: 455 metres Time Taken: 2 hours 30 minutes Start Time: 10:25 Weather: Murky and grim below the cloud, blue skies and sunshine above! 10C Finlay’s Wainwright count: 3/214 The weather appeared to be favourable for […]
Out of the blue almost, a perfect summer day at last. I managed a relatively quick scramble up to Red Screes via Kilnshaw Chimney (note – it’s a scramble up that way, not a walk) and then headed out to Middle Dodd. It was a perfect day to be on the fells today, not too hot, not too cold but just right (a Goldilocks day?!).
It is four years since I have been up Red Screes so I thought it was high time I paid a visit again, similarly with Middle Dodd. Of course, I should really have come here a week or two ago when I went to Hart Crag but the weather was ferocious and put me off that day. What a day today though, fantastic clarity and views.
Today’s walk is a steep ascent up to Middle Dodd and Red Screes from the bottom of Kirkstone Pass, across the Scandale Pass and a lovely ridge walk from Little Hart Crag to Hartsop Dodd, then a steep descent back to Kirkstone Pass. The weather wasn’t brilliant again today but the high winds meant that there was the odd clearing of the mist to give fleeting glimpses of a view.
Cow Bridge – Hartsop Dodd (33) – Caudale Moor (34) – Middle Dodd (35) – Red Screes (36) – Little Hart Crag (37) – High Hartsop Dodd (38) – Cow Bridge Brothers Water from the ascent of Hartsop Dodd. View from Hartsop Dodd. L-R : Middle Dodd, Low Pike, High Pike, Dove Crag, Hart Crag
