This was my first visit to the Lake District and was so blown away by the views that I am already planning a return trip next year. There is no scenery anything like this down south!
We wanted to try and get up at least one summit but with only limited time, wet weather drawing in and two young children in tow, an all day climb wasn’t going to happen. So to make the most of our time we decided to drive the Kirkstone Pass, the highest road in the Lake District (or so google told me) and see what we could do from there.
From the Kirkstone Pass car park we took the main footpath to start climbing Red Screes, following the stone stepped path. We went as far as we could, but the peaks were engulfed in cloud and the pathway wet and slippery, but the kids did great. We will be back next year for sure to conquer a summit!
Due to the low cloud I didn’t get quite the range of shots I hoped for, so the video is quite short. Bust compensated by going quite moody with the colour grading.
We went up Red Crees from Brothers Water via Scandale Pass, and then descended down a well steep route from Middle Dodd as its easier but longer and its a knee killer coming down!
This was after doing half the ascent up Red Screes and having to go back to drop my car keys off at Troutbeck that I mistakingly took with me (Mrs and my sister had an injury so they were going into Ambleside in my car).
We visited Ambleside the day before, took the boat up there from Bowness. But that’s another video for another day.
This was our last stop off before heading back south, was good to get up there but my youngest at three years old has absolutely no fear and was going to give me a hearts attack the way she clambered over the wet rocks without a care in the world. No problem going up, but as you say actually difficult coming back down, at least in a controlled manner.
Don’t know why we haven’t done it before now, just the distance and travelling that far with kids out us off I think.
But we really only scraped the surface, so we are looking at hiring a camper van and going back for a week next year so that we can get round much more of it.
. Nice video, especially given the typical Lakes weather.