Red Screes Route Information

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Red Screes

Quick Facts

This is the summed total of all the climbing within a route and is a good indicator of the strenuousness of a route.

Total Ascent

775 m

An estimate of the time taken based on a derivation of Naismiths rules. Our calculation is based on the horizontal and ascent components of a climb, we do not make a reduction for descent.

Registered users can customise these walking times by specifying their own walking and ascending speeds. They can also add a fixed time period for stoppages.

Route Time

3.5 hrs

The horizontal distance of the route.

Route Distance

10.41 km

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A brief summary of this route.

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Notes

Easy half-day walk from Ambleside on gently graded broad grassy ridge. Summit near crags.

Here we provide the nearest town to the start of the route where you will find basic services.

We then give directions from that location to the route start. Your approach route may differ.

Travel Information

Head to: Ambleside

From Ambleside drive to the N end of the town and park convenient for the Kirkstone road. Nb: the Kirkstone road above the town is very narrow and walled with almost no parking places.

Route Waypoint Map

The total ascent is 775 metres. Allow 3.5 hours to complete this 10.41 km route.

Usually the shortest way to climb the mountain, making best use of tracks and paths to gain altitude. Route navigation requires map reading skills and an ability to navigate with a compass.

The information given here will enable you to annotate your map and plan your route. We do not give anecdotal descriptions on where to find the paths, worn by the feet of previous mountaineers.

Where the access routes are few or the ridge is narrow, paths are generally obvious. On open ground, following paths without using your compass may get you lost in poor visibility.

Route Information

Waypoint Detail

	This walk starts from Ambleside. (It is impractical to attempt to park on the narrow steep Kirkstone Pass road.)
		NY37610471	Distance	Altitude 59 m

1	Head E up Kirkstone Road
		NY38000465	Distance 0.42 km	Altitude 109 m

2	Continue NE to a small gate below oaks approx. 400m after lane to Roundhill Farm.
		NY38570535	Distance 0.96 km	Altitude 210 m

3	Through gate follow path NW between stone walls
		NY38390579	Distance 0.50 km	Altitude 312 m

4	Continue on between-walls path NNE up broad ridge.
		NY38750707	Distance 1.36 km	Altitude 516 m

5	Continue NNE on path beyond Snarker Pike (false summit)
		NY39130812	Distance 1.16 km	Altitude 686 m

6	Continue NE on path up grassy ridge to summit of Red Screes (2500ft+)
		NY39640875	Distance 0.80 km	Altitude 776 m

7	Return to Ambleside by same route.
		NY37610471	Distance 5.21 km	Altitude 59 m

A selection of weather forecasts local to this route.

Weather

Cumbrian Fells
by MWIS (PDF format)

Lake District
by Met Office

High Street
by Metcheck

Images of Red Screes

Looking towards the top of Red Screes from N of Snarker Pike

Image by David S Brown

Red Screes from the NNE, taken from Hartsop Dodd.

Image by David S Brown

The lower part of the ascent track up Red Screes, which runs between 2 old dry stone walls.

Image by David S Brown

Summit trig of Red Screes with a distant Helvellyn group

Image by Graham Avis

Route Area Map

Legend

Munro

Corbett

Graham

English/Welsh Top

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Written by Graham Avis on 23 Dec 2010:

For a bit of a different, circular and more interesting route, take the valley path that leads out of Ambleside and keeps to the south of the Struggle as you wqalk generally in the direction of the Kirkstone Pass. You hit the Struggle about 400 metres from the top close to the Kirkstone Inn. Turn into the hill across the car park and go up the front of the hill using a stepped path in summer but in winter pick your way through the crags or use the corrie if the snows in consolidated state. Visit the trig point and walk off via the long ridge down into Ambleside. A nice little 4hr walk.

Disclaimer. The details provided above are an aid to planning an expedition, but all distances, altitudes and bearings must be considered approximate. You must navigate with the appropriate map, a compass, your navigation skills and common sense, MunroMagic.com accept no responsibility for your interpretation of our route information.

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