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Peak District 2002

At Easter 2002 me, Abbie, Jon, Rachel (Abbie's sister), Dave(J), Geoff, Gill, James, Jenny and Nim went up to Edale for a long weekend hiking around. It was pretty chilly, but that was ideal for hiking, and the weather was otherwise fabulous. We had a great time, but since we didn't have any days to work up to hiking it was a bit hard on some of us!

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Our Humble Abode

This was our base of operations for the weekend, a great youth hostel near Edale. Strangely it wasn't rated very highly in their guide - I think people are just getting too fussy these days!

A Bad Sign..

This was Dave after a 10-minute climb to the top of the hill above the Hostel, just after we arrived. Ah.. So he's going to be able to cope with a day's hiking then? (He did, of course :)

Forrested Stream

We headed up this stream to get to the top of Kinder Scout, the peak we climbed on the first day. The trees were a scarce enough commodity once we got onto the windy summit!

Geoff Strides Out

Geoff decided he was going to get ahead before the hills started - fortunately he decided to rest before he got completely out of sight.

Our Valley

This is the same stream as earlier, following the route we took up to the summit. It looks pretty gentle here...

Cascade

.. But as you can see from the features along the way, it started to get steeper fairly rapidly...

Rocky Gully

.. Until it became an entertaining little scramble. It was tiring, but good fun - though nothing quite prepared us for the blasting wind at the top!

The Top At Last

We had a hard time getting lost at the summit, someone had thoughtfully put a line of paving stones marking the route. Quite how they got them up there in the first place, I'd rather not consider...

Windswept Rock

We hung around here for a bit huddling against the wind - but we hadn't had the worst of it yet!

Skirting The Edge

The gale lessened a bit as we headed into another valley, and it really was a gorgeous day.

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