02 December 2007

For this walk we went over to Edale and started on the Pennine Way, intending to get as far as Hollins Cross (at the very least - again we were constrained by how much light we would have left)...

Thought I'd take a photo of the church as we headed into the village, I forgot I'd left the camera set on artificial light...


It was wet when we arrived and set off... we can see here that a fair amount of rain is coming out of the hills...


And then, just as soon as it's stopped rainign it brightens up as we hit the Pennine Way...


And then it begins again, it was a very on/off kind of day with the rain...


Came across this bench as we went through a field...





Dave with the remnants of Mam Tor in the background as the Edale Valley is spread out behind him...



And of course, no photo would be complete without one of me too...


About two/three miles further on from the bench the weather again took a turn for the worst, we cant complain really... it is December...!!





And then it brightens up again as we approach the foot of Jacobs Ladder...


And here we are... At the bottom of Jacobs Ladder...


And the water course at the side of the ladder's bottom


Stopped and turned round as we were ascending, looking back over the Edale Valley...


At the top of Jacobs Ladder, Jack (Dave's spaniel) seems to have no trouble running up the hill....


And then as we reach the top, where the path splits to Hollins Cross we can go no further because the weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse with the wind and the horizontal rain. We decide to call it a day and head back to the car park...



And then as we descend Jacobs Ladder the weather changes again.. but by this time Dave has wet feet and it's no good walking with wet feet...

17 November 2007

This was a walk from Crowden, following the Brook from Crowden into the hills...

This little dam is a short walk from the Car Park, just off the A628


Then it's off, following the brook...


Some interesting rock formations... this one looks like a dogs (others say a bears) head...


We had quite a bit of climbing to do at some points...


But we think it was worth it to see this waterfall, very much off the beaten track...





From the waterfall, we figured it'd be a struggle (with the light - it was November!!) to continue going forward, so we went up...which led to being able to take this photo of the brook we'd along...


Coming back we walked back on the opposite side of the brook and came across this waterfall, that we'd missed on the way up...

29 September 2007

This was a walk around the Ladybower Reservoir area, we parked at the Heatherdene Car Park and hiked up the opposite side of the road, following a pre-planned route...

As we were leaving the Car park we came across this seat and just had to have our pics taken...

This one is Dave...


This is me...


A view down into the River Derwent Valley from the Dam...


The view into and over the Ladybower Valley...


A gnarled and eaten tree we came across...

23 September 2007

This weekend saw me on my own walking from Mablethorpe to Sutton on Sea, only a short four mile round trip...

This was the Beach Hut Weekend... A celebration of beach huts.

Below is the open air exhibition In Search of Albion



This is the first of the new Beach Huts I encountered on my walk, it's situated to the left of the Lifeboat Station in Mablethorpe...


About three quarters of a mile away as we leave Mablethorpe and venture into Trusthorpe is this beach hut...


Next two photos are taken in Sutton-on-Sea

24 February 2007

This walk saw us park up at Fairholmes and walk up to Whinstone Lee Tor...

Looking towards the A57 and Win Hill...


Walking through the woods we come across watercourses...


As we neared the edge of Winstone Lee Tor, the weather (as always) changes it's mind...


And here I am above Ladybower Reservoir, with Fairholmes Car Park behind me...


And not to be outdone, here's Dave and Jack...


Coming back down, we came across another water course...

10 February 2007

This walk was our first at Crowden, weather conditions were dry, but with snow on the floor...



We decided to hike up to the part where the Pennine Way crosses Crowden (to get some height) but then we came off the beaten track..


Looking down over Crowden Brook


Dave showing how high up we are!


And me doing the same...


We descended eventually...

28 January 2007

We were at Castleton for this windy day walk. We came out of the Car Park, turn left and headed off that way, intending to walk round the back of Peveril Castle down Cave Dale...

I dont normally take photo's of roads, but we walked up this one, and it was relentless... It seemed to go on for ages...


Dave ended up having to crawl up it, Jack (as usual) had no problems!!!


We decided to go over a stile we came across while walking up the road, more vertical walking...


When we got to the top of the hill above, the wind was fair blowing, enough to bend this tree...


And blow my hair off!!!!


We got down into Cave Dale, and carried on walking through... this is heading towards Windy Knoll with a view over to Mam Tor... As usual the weather took decided to change...


When we got to the foot of the Mam Tor steps, we even came across snow...


I think the wind got the better of Dave here...


As we ascended Mam Tor, we stopped to look down into the valley... couldn't see much...


It was that windy on Mam Tor that Dave popped Jack onto his lead to stop him blowing away... The Trig Point is way behind Dave.. . It was that windy up there that we could't make it to the top...