Red Screes - ascent - choices?

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It is better to ascend Red Screes via;

High Hartsop Dodd then Little Hart Crag (then descend via Middle Dodd)

or the other way round (ascend via Middle Dodd then over to Little Hart
Crag and High Hartsop Dodd)?

Or is it no different? Both have very steep ascents?

I've gone up Middle Dodd several times. It is very steep, hard work
and the rough tussocks do not help. I've never walked up High Hartsop
Dodd and only ever come down it once and though steep I don't remember
its being particularly difficult in descent. I think Middle Fell
probably would be. I'd prefer to do the easier descent at the end of a
walk, much easier on the thighs.

John D.
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email hidden said:

It is better to ascend Red Screes via;

High Hartsop Dodd then Little Hart Crag (then descend via Middle Dodd)

or the other way round (ascend via Middle Dodd then over to Little Hart
Crag and High Hartsop Dodd)?

Or is it no different? Both have very steep ascents?

Not a lot in it, though I prefer the ascent from the Kirkstone pass -
steep but short, and a bit scrambly.
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It is better to ascend Red Screes via;

High Hartsop Dodd then Little Hart Crag (then descend via Middle Dodd)

or the other way round (ascend via Middle Dodd then over to Little Hart
Crag and High Hartsop Dodd)?

Or is it no different? Both have very steep ascents?

Last time up there from Patterdale I went up Caiston Glen to Scandale Hause,
then up onto Red Screes, onto Middle Dodd, back to Scandale Hause, then
Little Hart Crag and High Hartsop Dodd. The descent from High Hartsop Dodd
was tough on the knees but exhilarating - with almost all-round visibility
it was eerily like flying.
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Dave