Wow! 100 posts, who’d have thought I would have got this far 🙂 Having reached this landmark I thought it might be appropriate to look back on the blog thus far and pick out a few highlights! Pool between Moel Hebog and Moel Yr Ogof- July 2013 Sprinkling Tarn- August 2013 Langdale Pikes- June 2013
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Category: Kinder
22.8.13Walking with; Nobody Another chance to get out onto the Peak District’s finest hill to work on my rope and navigation skills. Kinder is undoubtedly my favourite hill in the area, dramatic, historic and accessible and I decided to access it on this occasion from the lay by at the foot of Chapel Gate. This
23.4.13Walking with; Nobody After the trials and tribulations of a windswept Lake District last week it felt good to be back on familiar ground and to, maybe, just maybe, see Spring finally beginning to stir. Kinder is my “go to” hill, close enough to have a long day out and sleep in my own bed,
14/15.01.13Walking with; Nobody Tomorrow is my 40th birthday and I’d hoped to fit something special in as a prelude to this momentous landmark, luckily the weather seemed to be on my side and I had two fantastic days in the Peak District with snow lying thick on the ground and barely a soul to be
Off on my Mountain Leader Training on Saturday morning with Thornbridge Outdoors. Five days in the Peak District and an overnight expedition in Snowdonia! Should be an interesting and challenging couple of days! Well that’s training completed and it was a challenge but brilliant in spite of the worst weather that The Peak District and
29.5.12Walking with; Nobody Ewan MacColl’s Manchester Rambler claimed to have “sunbathed on Kinder and been burned to a cinder”, but given that my last two trips up there had involved zero visibility and blizzard like conditions I had my doubts. None-the-less I can now confirm that it is eminently possible to be fried on and
4.3.12Walking with; Simon Huddlestone from The Peak District Rangers I was back at Kinder this weekend for the first of my “pre-walks” as part of my bid to become a Peak District Ranger. I am starting to see why people love what I’d always considered a big, ugly lump quite so much. We set off
Walking with; Nobody29.2.12 Hayfield is a picturesque Peak District villagewhich styles itself as the “Gateway to Kinder” although I suspectEdale may have something to say about that! It was from Hayfield (BowdenBridge) that the Manchester contingent of the mass trespassers led by BennyRothwell set off towards Kinder on the “Right to Roam” protest, the80th anniversary
