Ascent/Descent:
843m; Net Walking Time: ca. 6 ½ hours
Toughness:
10 out of 10
From the West, take the 08.49 Sheffield train from Manchester
Piccadilly (…var. stations…, New Mills Central 09.17, Chinley 09.23),
arriving Edale at 09.32.
From the East, take the 09.14 Manchester
Piccadilly train from Sheffield (Dore & Totley 09.21, Grindleford 09.29,
Hathersage 09.32, Bamford 09.36, Hope 09.40), arriving Edale at 09.47.
Return
trains
to London: 16.32, 17.34, 18.32, 19.32 (change at Sheffield, from 3 hours).
Return trains: xx.47 until 19.47, then 21.45 and 23.21 towards Manchester; 16.32, 17.34, 18.32, 19.32, 21.30 and 23.01 towards Sheffield.
“A walk of many contrasts in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District, associated with rugged moorlands and dramatically sculpted gritstone outcrops (or ‘edges’), which also routes through the lush Vale of Edale, while in the afternoon affording grand views into the Hope Valley (including the notable dry gorge of Winnats Pass) from the Great Ridge, which separates the Dark Peak (sandstones) from the White Peak (limestones).
Return trains: xx.47 until 19.47, then 21.45 and 23.21 towards Manchester; 16.32, 17.34, 18.32, 19.32, 21.30 and 23.01 towards Sheffield.
“A walk of many contrasts in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District, associated with rugged moorlands and dramatically sculpted gritstone outcrops (or ‘edges’), which also routes through the lush Vale of Edale, while in the afternoon affording grand views into the Hope Valley (including the notable dry gorge of Winnats Pass) from the Great Ridge, which separates the Dark Peak (sandstones) from the White Peak (limestones).
Follow the Pennine Way from its start at The Old Nag’s Head pub up along the fertile Vale
of Edale, surrounded by towering hills, and up the Jacob’s Ladder path to Edale Head and to the edge of the Kinder Scout moorland plateau, a rugged,
desolate peat bog. You then follow the edge past some magnificent rock formations and through an area of scattered
wind-and-rain-sculpted gritstone boulders to choose one of three descent routes back to Edale village for lunch.
After lunch rise
steeply onto the Great Ridge overlooking the Hope Valley and up to Mam Tor, whose
summit is a great vantage point and a former late Bronze Age and early Iron Age
hill fort. Its other name of “Shivering Mountain” is due to frequent – and
still active – landslips.
An
extension to Kinder Downfall, the
highest waterfall in the Peak District, either
as an out-and-back or combined with a crossing of the Kinder Plateau upland
peat bog (only for confident navigators), as well as some shortcuts before and after lunch, are described.”
Walk Options:
An out-and-back Extension to Kinder Downfall,
the highest waterfall in the Peak District: add 5.4 km/3.4 mi and 165m
ascent/descent.
An Extension to Kinder Downfall, combined with a crossing
of the Kinder Plateau upland peat bog: add 3.2 km/2.0 mi (but see the
warning on page 9 of the pdf).
A Shortcut via Grindslow Knoll cuts 2.8
km/1.7 mi and about 200m ascent/descent.
A Shortcut down Grindsbrook Clough (this
involves light but prolonged scrambling): cut 2.5 km/1.6 mi and about 200m
ascent/descent.
Cut out the southerly loop up to Mam Tor: cut 5.4 km/3.1 mi and 220m ascent, rated 7/10.
Lunch: The Old
Nag's Head
(14.4 km/9.0 mi, food served all day), The
Rambler Inn
(350m off route, 15.1 km/9.4 mi, food served all day).
3 comments:
Plenty of people left last night or this morning, but we had 3 walkers joining that had taken a rest yesterday plus 7 (!) new arrivals, so indeed had n=27 on the walk again, in w=generally overcast-with-two-short-periods-of-rain type weather.
3 or 4 took an off-walk ascent route up the Crowden Clough, 13 added the extension to Kinder Downfall and the peat bog plateau crossing to the route, 1 went on to do the full Kinder Scout circuit. But only about a handful walked the afternoon loop back up to Mam Tor.
The bog crossing, potentially very treacherous, was as easy as it is ever going to get: the Kinder River dry, the waterfall therefore w/o water, the gloopy boggy paths dry and bouncy, the tricky deceiving grassy bits just floating on deep water now being largely dry and w/o danger. So apart from following a compass bearing through pathless territory, there were no dangers today. No one shipped water, no one sank into mud. Almost a shame!
27 plus a dog, I should have said
Nuisance of the day: flying ants
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