Red Screes
776m (2547ft)
The Eastern Fells, The Lake District, Cumbria, England
The summit of Red Screes is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
You can find Red Screes & all the walks that climb it on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7ml (11km) |
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| Ascent: | 2,373ft (723m) |
| Time: | 5 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Moderate) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Caiston Beck - Brothers Water.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7ml (11km) |
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| Ascent: | 2,737ft (834m) |
| Time: | 5.25hrs |
| Grade: |  (Moderate) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - High Hartsop Dodd - Caiston Beck - Cow Bridge - Brothers Water.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.5ml (12km) |
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| Ascent: | 2,519ft (768m) |
| Time: | 5.25hrs |
| Grade: | (Moderate) |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Snarker Pike - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75ml (15.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,551ft (1,082m) |
| Time: | 7.25hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Snarker Pike - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - High Pike (Scandale) - Low Pike (Scandale) - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75ml (15.5km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,699ft (1,127m) |
| Time: | 7.25hrs |
| Grade: | (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 12.5ml (20km) |
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| Ascent: | 3,411ft (1,040m) |
| Time: | 8 hrs |
| Grade: |  (Hard) |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Rydal - Nab Scar - Heron Pike - Rydal Fell (Heron Pike North Top) - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Little Hart Crag - Scandale Pass - Red Screes - Snarker Pike - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13.75ml (22km) |
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| Ascent: | 5,501ft (1,676m) |
| Time: | 10½ hrs |
| Grade: |  (Very Hard) |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd - Caudale Moor - Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) - Caudale Head - Pike How - St Raven's Edge - The Kirkstone Pass - Red Screes - Smallthwaite Band - Middle Dodd - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - High Hartsop Dodd - Little Hart Crag - Scandale Head - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
Fellow go4awalkers who have already walked, climbed, summited & bagged Red Screes
Tim Winn walked up Red Screes on August 14th, 2023 [from/via/route] Cow Bridge car park [with] Barry [weather] Sunny
Michael Lewis climbed Red Screes on March 11th, 2023 [from/via/route] From Ambleside up Scandale Pass [with] Suzanne [weather] Dry cold with snow on the ground from the previous 48 hourse
Angeline Grieveson bagged Red Screes on November 20th, 2022 [with] Dotty
John Ramsbottom hiked Red Screes on October 24th, 2022 [from/via/route] walk c351 [with] Lola/ Skratch [weather] dry/ windy
Christine Shepherd summited Red Screes on September 30th, 2007 [from/via/route] We climbed this fell using walk c230 but as Red Screes was the main target we did it in reverse! Climbed again from the Kirkstone Inn on 31.07.21 Enjoyed the climb from Kirkstone Inn again on 4.6.22 [with] My friend Miriam [weather] Lovely Autumn sunshine. - Climbed this again using part of walk c305 after bagging Middle Dodd on 1.9.10. I had bagged Lingmell in the morning!)
Steve Cookson conquered Red Screes on April 21st, 2022 [from/via/route] C351 from Brothers Water. [with] Gillie [weather] Sunny but windy.
Ian Ashton scaled Red Screes on April 2nd, 2022 [with] Solo
Martin Hartshorne walked up Red Screes on March 21st, 2022 [with] finley [weather] Clear breeze cold on top
Geoff Hand climbed Red Screes on February 9th, 2022 [from/via/route] Walk c351 Red Screes & Little Hart Crag from Cow Bridge, Brothers Water. [with] Alone with Tess [weather] Broken cloud & sun, Windy on top, getting clearer as day went on. - Cold day but great views. Not many people about. Nice little walk.
Richard Marchant bagged Red Screes on July 18th, 2021 [from/via/route] Started from Ambleside's main car park & then basically walked the Scandale Horseshoe heading North up Low Pike, High Pike on to Dove Crag. Then traversed across to Little Hart Crag & ascended Red Screes & returned to Ambleside heading south along the ridge. [with] Just myself [weather] Dry & fine weather.
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More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of Red Screes
Cofa Pike and Fairfield from High Crag (Helvellyn) with Red Screes in the distance
Middle Dodd with Place Fell, Angletarn Peaks and Hartsop Dodd beyond Brothers Water in the valley below from Red Screes
*Baystones (Wansfell) in the foreground with Red Screes (left), Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Thornthwaite Crag and the Froswick, Ill Bell, Yoke ridge silhouetted on the skyline from Wansfell Pike
Red Screes (left), Thornthwaite Crag, Froswick, Ill Bell and Yoke from Baystones (Wansfell)
Middle Dodd, Red Screes, Snarker Pike, the Scandale Valley and Lake Windermere from High Pike (Scandale)
A Brocken Spectre (almost) with Red Screes beyond from the lower slopes of Yoke
Thornthwaite Crag (left), Hartsop Dodd and Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) (centre), Red Screes (right) and the shoulder of Hartsop above How (foreground) from Arnison Crag, Patterdale
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