I didn't bring Meg on this one as it was warm , and I knew there would be little to no water sources on this hike.
Two of the goals on this walk was to visit a couple of Kinder Scouts features that I hadn't seen before - Edale Cross and the true summit of Kinder. I parked at the NT car park near Mam Tor and walked along Rushup Edge and then the high moorland across the head of the Vale of Edale to arrive at the South Western corner of Kinder.
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| Start of the path across to Brown Knoll |
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| Cowburn Tunnel Air Shaft |
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| Looking back to the Great Ridge |
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| Brown Knoll trig point |
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| Rock outrop on the edge of Kinder |
After leaving Brown Knoll the location of Edale Cross was easily found on the South Western path around Kinder.
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| Edale Cross |
From there I followed the footpath up onto the pennine way path to Kinder Low. I had a short break there before setting off across the plateau to the tru summit of Kinder (3m higher than Kinder Low). As there was no path I used my Garmin for this section. Fortunately, because of the recent dry weather there wasn't much risk of falling into a peat bog !!
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| Kinder Low |
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| Military Helicopters over Kinder |
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| The understated, highest point in Derbyshire ! |
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| On the way back to Kinder Edge |
I made as good a bee line as possible back to the edge and came out around Pym Chair, and then started tracing the edge path back to the top of Jacobs Ladder. At this point I came across a string of firefighters with rucksacks and big swatters on their way up to a fire a bit further along the edge near the woolpacks. They told me that Jacobs Ladder had killed thier all terrain vehicle.
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| This image was on max zoom from near Rushup Edge. You can just make out the area of the fire |
Hats off to the firefighters. Fortunately, the fire didn't spread to a large area before they had it under control.
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| Vale of Edale |
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| Rushup Edge |
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| The Vale of Edale from Rushup Edge |
Although I am 'walking fit' I am not 'hill walking fit'. My feet were developing a few hot spots in the last couple of miles, so I was glad to finally get back to the car.
Another fabulous wander on holy ground.
11.5 miles. OS OL1.
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