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.
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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
Jason Aspinall walked up Red Screes on May 1st, 2025 [from/via/route] Brothers Water [weather] Sunny
Andrew Gayne climbed Red Screes on April 30th, 2025 [from/via/route] From Brothers Water Car Park [with] Becky [weather] Really sunny & very hot, hottest day of the year - In the lakes for 2 days. Stayed in Ambleside overnight & drove to Brothers Water. A long lovely walk to the start of the climb up Middle Dodd but got lost & missed the path & had a tortuous climb up a mossy steep slope that made for a difficult & long walk. Went on to Red Screes, then Little Hart Crag & finally High Hartsop Dodd
David Higginbottom bagged Red Screes on April 30th, 2025 [from/via/route] Walk 351 very nice walk but tough at start [with] Carolyn [weather] Clear & nice & sunny
Ian Ashton hiked Red Screes on April 2nd, 2022 [with] Solo - Done 2nd time 29/09/24 with jph
James Hughes summited Red Screes on June 2nd, 2024 [from/via/route] Red Screes & Little Hart Crag from Cow Bridge c351 - From Brotherswater Inn [weather] Clear - Post walk pint in Brotherswater Inn... stiff climb up Middle Dodd, meander down to Little Hart Crag passing group of older walkers.
Kate Peacock conquered Red Screes on July 5th, 2024 [from/via/route] From Cow Bridge free car park [with] Me, Sheila & Skye [weather] Cloudy & windy, had to layer up however no rain. Underfoot was slippy
Tim Winn scaled Red Screes on August 14th, 2023 [from/via/route] Cow Bridge car park [with] Barry [weather] Sunny
Michael Lewis walked up 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 climbed Red Screes on November 20th, 2022 [with] Dotty
John Ramsbottom bagged Red Screes on October 24th, 2022 [from/via/route] walk c351 [with] Lola/ Skratch [weather] dry/ windy
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More Photographs & Pictures of views from, on or of 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)
Cofa Pike and Fairfield from High Crag (Helvellyn) with Red Screes in the distance
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
A Brocken Spectre (almost) with Red Screes beyond from the lower slopes of Yoke
Middle Dodd with Place Fell, Angletarn Peaks and Hartsop Dodd beyond Brothers Water in the valley below from Red Screes
Middle Dodd, Red Screes, Snarker Pike, the Scandale Valley and Lake Windermere from High Pike (Scandale)
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