A quick dip in the lakes

[tomyboy73]

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We, me & Tommy, were on a road trip to pick up Tam & Jim who had just completed The Dales Way and it seemed too good an opportunity not to bag at least one Wainwright on route. After asking around on Twitter I decided on the quick route up Red Screes from the Kirkstone Pass.
There`s a large carpark across from The Inn which sits right at the top of the pass at 1500ft.

High Hartsop Dodd

Kirkstone Pass up ahead

Red Screes from car park

looking west

Helvelyn

my first Wainwright summit pic

Scafells close up

Middle Dodd, looking up towards Ullswater

over to High st

Great Gable close up

towards Windermere

The path up is excellent, short steps all the way, with a couple of wee scrambles. The views are magnificent and this trip has wet my appetite for further forays south.

[ChrisW]

From the summit views it would appear you picked a little cracker there Tomyboy, that is a great reward for so little distance & ascent, definitely worth the stop off on your journey

[AJNicholls]

Good pics! And welcome to the Wainwrights.

I'd never really considered that easy route up to Red Screes. I remember going up it after Little Hart Crag and finding a rather gross-looking, bird-pecked dead sheep on the summit in 2011.