Hayfield Walk
What luck we had with the weather, given
the bucketing torrents of the week just gone by! No surprise to most people that it was a
“Dizzy” Diz Carter walk, with a few little off piste sections. (May get drummed
out of the Leader brigade at this rate). However, over all everyone enjoyed it.
Starting at Peep o’ Day just outside
Hayfield, the walk took in Oaken Clough, Edale Cross and Jacob’s Ladder where
we had our lunch in the lee of the hill just before the stone steps to the
valley.
A minor deviation just before Upper Booth
took us up and along a hefty shoulder instead of up Whitemoor Clough, which
would probably have been a stiffer climb.
We had a well deserved tea break at the
cairn in memory of John Gilligan, looking out over the Edale Valley.
After this we joined the Chapel Gate Trail
westwards before joining the Pennine Bridleway behind 4 stinky Range Rovers
doing “off roading”.
John G decided to avoid this last stretch
of up and downhill tracks by cutting over to Brown Knoll and arrived back at
the cars nearly an hour before the rest of us, so got home much quicker for a
reviving bath and cup of tea or maybe something stronger.
There were 17 of us in total, quite a good
turnout considering the slightly dodgy weather.
