Date: 31st Jul 2010 Stats: 14.0 miles, 3000 feet Weather: Overcast but warm, light wind, small shower Trig Points: 1: Win Hill, but no new ones Yorks Tops: 0 Other Info: Free parking in Grouse Inn car park Summary: Ladybower, Win Hill, Crookstone Hill, Blackden Edge, Seal Edge, Fairbrook Naze, The Edge, Mill Hill, Burnt [...]

Date: 20th Dec 2009 Stats: 7.0 miles, 800 feet Weather: Crisp, clear morning, –8 degrees at the car, sunshine all the way Trig Points: 2: TP3795 – High Neb, TP6150 – Stanage Edge Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Roadside parking below Callow Bank Summary: Stanage Edge, High Neb, lower path along face of escarpment, Stanage Edge [...]

Date: 12th Jul 2009 Stats: 13.5 miles, 2800 feet Weather: Overcast and cloudy, some rain spells, brightening at the end Trig Points: 2: TP4216 – Kinder Low, TP3019 – Edale Moor Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Free parking in Edale village, by the Old Nags Head, toilets in Edale car park Summary: Edale, Pennine Way via [...]

Date: 13th Apr 2009 Stats: 16.0 miles, 2500 feet Weather: Mostly clear with no wind or rain Trig Points: 2: TP6366 – The Cloud, TP2603 – Croker Hill Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: The car park at Timbersbrook is never open when I arrive, so I always park on the road, no toilets Summary: Timbersbrook, The [...]

Date: 11th Apr 2009 Stats: 11.0 miles, 2200 feet Weather: Cloudy, spots of rain, but no wind to speak of Trig Points: 1: TP0828 – Alphin Pike Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Parking £2 at Dovestone Reservoir, toilets open early Summary: Dovestone, Teoman Hey and Greenfield Reservoirs, Greenfield Brook, Birchen Clough, ridge route past Great Dove [...]

Date: 4th Apr 2009 Stats: 14.0 miles, 3000 feet Weather: Low cloud and mist to begin, warming nicely and clearing as the walk went on Trig Points: 3: TP5970 – Shutlingsloe, TP7177 – Cat and Fiddle, TP5950 – Shining Tor Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Roadside parking by Ridgegate Reservoir, toilets appear to be closed now [...]

Date: 16th Mar 2009 Stats: 9.0 miles, 2000 feet Weather: Sunny to start, clouding later, no rain, no wind Trig Points: 2: TP6378 – The Edge, TP4216 – Kinder Low Wainwrights: N/A Other Info: Parking at Bowden Bridge, with toilets. Room on road if you arrive early Summary: Bowden Bridge, Kinder Reservoir, William Clough, The [...]

Another grim and grey weekend of weather had been predicted and Tex and I decided to try for a lower level walk to try and avoid the worst of the rain and low cloud. We selected the Peak District and then I chose a route I’d walked a couple of years ago around Dovestone Reservoir. [...]

Date: 15th Nov 2008 Stats: 5.5 miles, 1100 feet Weather: Cold, windy, intermittent rain, very wet underfoot Trig Points: 0 Wainwrights: 0 Other Info: Ample parking at Dovestone Resr (£1.30 all day), with toilets Summary: Dovestone Reservoir, Yeoman Hey Resr, Birchen Clough, Yeoman Hey Resr, Dovestone Reservoir Another grim and grey weekend of weather had [...]

This is my first post using Windows Live Writer, so it’s something of an experiment; hopefully it will all come together in a seamless post – but you never know until you hit the “Publish” button, so fingers crossed I made a long overdue return to the Kinder plateau yesterday as I walked the Edale [...]